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Volume XX, Number 31 1st Waxing of Nayon 1374 ME Monday, 21 May, 2012

True patriotism * It is very important for every one of the nation

regardless of the place he lives to have strongUnion Spirit.

* Only Union Spirit is the true patriotism all thenationalities will have to safeguard.

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—The second Union levelpeace talks between Union Peace-making Work Committeeand Rehabilitation Council of Shan State/Shan State Army(RCSS/SSA) were held at Golden Triangle Yeiktha ofTriangle Region Command yesterday morning. Present onthe occasion were Vice-Chairmen of Union Peace-makingWork Committee Deputy Commander-in-Chief of DefenceServices Commander-in-Chief (Army) General Soe Winand Union Minister for Rail Transportation U Aung Min.

Also present at the talks on the side of UnionPeace-making Work Committee were members UnionMinister for Energy U Than Htay, Union Minister forElectric Power No.2 U Khin Maung Soe, Shan State ChiefMinister U Sao Aung Myat, Commander of EasternCommand Maj-Gen Soe Htut, Commander of Central EastCommand Brig-Gen Tun Tun Naung, Commander of TriangleRegion Command Maj-Gen Than Tun Oo, Deputy Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, Shan State Minister for Security andBorder Affairs Col Aung Thu and Col Kyaw Soe Win ofCommander-in-Chief (Army)’s Office. Present at the talkson the side of RCSS/SSA were RCSS Chairman U Ywat Sitand responsible persons.

Local and foreign reporters, media and journalscovered the news about the peace talks. Before the talks,General Soe Win and U Ywat Sit cordially greeted togetherby shaking hands.

Next, the talks commenced and General Soe Winextended greetings. Union Minister U Aung Min read outthe President’s order of the formation of Union Peace-making Work Committee and presented the members.

RCSS Chairman U Ywat Sit extended greetingsand a responsible person read out an anti-narcotic drugproject of RCSS/SSA to be undertaken in cooperation withthe government.

The leaders of the two groups have a mutualdiscussion on making eternal peace and joint combat ofnarcotic drugs and the members took part in the round ofdiscussions.

After the talks, General Soe Win and RCSSChairman U Ywat Sit exchanged gifts. Then, bilateralagreements were signed and the notes were exchanged.

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and RCSS/SSA heldand RCSS/SSA held

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—Union Minister forConstruction U Khin Maung Myint yesterday morninginspected upgrading of Nay Pyi Taw-Pathein road section,repair of Meiktila-Kyaukpadaung road section,Kyaukpadaung-Gwaycho-Chauk-Seikpyu road section.

On arrival at the briefing hall of Shwesangyoung

Maintenance of Shwesangyoung bridge, Pathein-Monywa road, Nay Pyi Taw-Taungnyo-Myothit-

Kanpya (Magway) road inspectedBridge project on Pathein-Monywa road, the Union ministerstressed the need for officials concerned to ensure timelycompletion of the bridge, meeting the set standard, sooneropening of the facility, maintenance of bridges alongPathein-Monywa road for durability, and called on them toconstruct Seikpyu-Kasunma-Hsaw-Kanpetlet road whichleads to Seikpyu into an all-weather road and maintenanceof roads which lead to Pakokku, Salin, Pwintbyu andMinbu.

Next, the Union Minister proceeded toShwesangyaung bridge which will soon be opened andinspected preparatory works for opening of the road and thefinishing touches.

Shwesangyoung bridge is 900 feet long and 24feet wide flanked by two three feet and six inches widepedestrian ways. The semi-concrete bridge can withstand60 tons of loads.

As the construction of the bridge is completed by98 per cent, arrangements are being made to open it soon.

Later, the Union Minister looked into maintenanceof roads and bridges along Pathein-Monywa road and leftnecessary instructions.

The Union minister also inspected maintenance ofMann creek bridge on Pathein-Monywa road, collection oftolls and systematic use of road by lorries and trucks as wellas tarring road sections along Nay Pyi Taw-Taungnyo-Myothit-Kanpya (Magway) and construction of Ngaleikcreek bridge into a concrete facility.—MNA

Union Minister for Construction U Khin Maung Myint inspects Shwesangyoung Bridge project onPathein-Monywa road. —MNA

The second Union level peace talks between Union Peace-making Work Committee andRehabilitation Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in progress.—MNA

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PERSPECTIVES

Geographical opportunityMonday, 21 May, 2012

Myanmar lies in a geopoliticallyimportant area between the two giants of theorient which are also the emerging economiesserving as the engine of growth for the worldeconomy. Because of their size, populationand rapid economic growth, our two giantneighbours are also huge markets whereconsumption is high when compared with manyother emerging economies of the world. Theirbilateral trade volumes with global countriesare growing larger and larger every yeargenerating brighter prospects for internationaltrade through land, air and sea.

This brings opportunities as well aschallenges for our country where democraticreforms taking place in every corner for peace,progress, prosperity and unity which in factare the aspirations of the people.

As for peace and unity, the government’snational reconsolidation project is workingquite well producing encouraging results inpolitical and ethnical spheres to the degree ofcreating a secure environment where we allcan find a common ground and work togetherfor national interest.

As for progress and prosperity, theHluttaws (parliaments) are in the process ofenacting new laws agreeable to democracyand making amendments, adjustments andadditions in democratically transforming thelaws in force. Together with legal reforms, thegovernment is liberalizing many sectors frompast restrictions ensuring an environmentfriendly to foreign direct investments, exportand important businesses, services industries,production sector, trade and so on for nationaleconomic growth.

With reforms going on well in varioussectors, we are more than ready to promotebusiness, trade and friendly relations with anyglobal country. Thanks to our geographicalposition, many countries including our twogiant neighbors are eager to enhance tradeand diplomatic relations with us which in realityare an opportunity we must wisely use for ourown good.

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—UnionMinister for Transport U Nyan Tun Aunginspected the condition of pontoon bridgesat Botahtaung Jetty under Myanma PortAuthority yesterday morning. MPAManaging Director U Cho Than Maungreported to the Union Minister onpreparation for launching of floating hotelwith vessels at the No.6 Pontoon Bridge.

The Union Minister called forturning Botatung Jetty and its environsinto modern, beautiful one and ensuringguest safety at floating hotels.

On arrival at the Pansodan-Dalla ferryticket counter, the Union Minister headreports on preparation for introduction of Ipay system presented by Managing DirectorU Win Pe of Inland Water Transport.

YANGON, 20 May – ProphetDay was marked at MyanmarMedical Association in MingalaTaungnyunt Township hereyesterday morning. PresidingChairman of the ceremony MajorTin Maung Win (Retd) spoke onthe occasion. U Aye Lwin (BSC)read out the message offelicitations sent by the UnionMinister for Religious Affairs andPatron U Maung Maung Tarspoke about the Prophet.

Then, Prophet DayOrganizing Committee Vice-Chairman U Sein Htay, MawlawiU Ohn Thaung and leaders ofreligious organizations alsospoke about Prophet.

MNA

Union Transport Minister visitsBotahtaung Jetty, Pansodan-Dalla ferry

ticket counter, IWT Delta DivisionThe Union Minister demanded safe

and sound and convenient ferry service fortravelers as over 30,000 passengers use theroute daily, stressing the needs forsystematic preparation before the launchof I pay system.

While visiting Delta Division, theUnion Minister called for providing smoothtransportation to people in the street ratherthan seeking profits alone since InlandWater Transport provides transport serviceto more than 24 million yearly. Hediscouraged the ferry-fare increase,stressing the safety of passengers andvessels. He also called on the staff to attachgreat importance to transparency in buildingof democratic nation.

MNA

Prophet Daymarked

YANGON, 20 May – Refresher Course No.1/2012 forissuance of Sama registration for doctors, conducted by theMedical Science Department of the Ministry of Health, wasopened at the University of Nursing (Yangon) on BogyokeAung San Street in Yangon with an address by UnionMinister for Health Dr Pe Thet Khin.

In his speech, the Union Minister said that 14universities of medicine, dental universities and othermedical universities and 46 universities of nursing / midwiferyof the Medical Science Department and one University ofTraditional Medicine of the Department of TraditionalMedicine are turning out required human resources.

Next, the Union Minister and party visited DentalUniversity (Yangon) in Thuwunna of ThingangyunTownship and met the trainees of refresher courseNo.1/2012 for issuance of Tha-Kha registrations for dentalsurgeons.

The course is being attended by 2087 doctors and 298dental surgeons. — MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—Yangon-Mandalay coach ofGI Group collided with the GMC vehicle carrying fishesfrom the back between mile post No 258/4 and 258/5 onYangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay road around 2.45 am on 16May, killing five—two drivers, one conductor and twopassengers and wounding 12.

Trucks are prohibited to run on the highway by law.The accident was due to driver U Tun Hla who drove his fish-overloaded vehicle along the highway from Tatkon Junctionat night without backlight. But the coach was also heldresponsible as it was also overloaded with some cargoes andthus could not control the high speed down the road.

It is reported that the Construction Ministry wouldtighten traffic rule enforcement actions in cooperation withthe Myanmar Police Force.—MNA

YANGON, 20 May – Ministry of Hotels and Tourism incooperation with other related ministries is trying for theconvenience of tourists coming to Myanmar. ManagingDirector U Hla Htay of Myanma Hotels and TourismEnterprise met responsible people from limousineassociations at the office of Yangon Region Governmenton 18 May.

Similarly, the Tourism Training School of the ministryis conducting basic tour guide training courses so as tofulfill the needs of Myanmar tour guides.

Tour Guide Training Course (Basic ) No.41 will beopened in June. Its entrance examination was held atNational Management College (Botataung) in Yangon at9 am today and a total of 331 took the exam.

The managing director of Myanma Hotels and TourismEnterprise and officials visited the exam centre. — MNA

Refresher course for issuanceof Sama registration for

doctors opens

Tour guide entrance exam heldRoad accident stemmed fromfailure to observe traffic rulesleaves five dead, 12 wounded

U Hla Pe (Retired Prison Incharge) andDaw Han Htay made donation amounted to

K 0.7 million for the construction of Home forthe Aged in Maubin Township through

Chairman U Soe Win of the Work Committeefor construction of the facility.—MYANMA ALIN

LONDON, 20 May—Britain and Russia grabbedquota places in each of the three weight categories inwomen’s boxing which makes its Olympic debut in Londonthis year, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) saidon Saturday.

In all, 25 quota places in three weight categories- 51kg, 60kg and 75kg - were awarded after the conclusionof the women’s world championships in Qinhuangdao,China.

United States, Brazil, Tunisia, China and NewZealand bagged two places each from the tournament’sregional quota.

Irish boxer Katie Taylor capped her Olympicqualification by winning her fourth 60kg title, beatingRussian Sofya Ochigava in the industrial port city of Chinato boost her London prospects.

England’s Savannah Marshall will also fancy herchances of winning a gold in London after defeatingAzerbaijan’s Elena Vystropova to win the 75kg title.h

Compatriot Nicola Adams secured a berth forLondon, despite losing to local favourite Cancan Ren in the51kg final.

Natasha Jonas, who won the 60kg bronze, was theother English woman boxer to win a quota place for London.

Venezuela, Poland, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan,Nigeria, Azerbaijan and Australia won one regional quotaplace each.

Reuters

Britain, Russia grab placesin women’s boxing

Women’s middleweight boxers SavannahMorshall of Britain (L) and Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen of Australia compete during theOlympic boxing venue test event at the Excel

centre in east London November 25,2011.REUTERS

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CAMP DAVID, 20 May— World leadersbacked keeping Greece in the euro zone onSaturday and vowed to take all stepsnecessary to combat financial turmoil whilerevitalizing a global economy increasinglythreatened by Europe’s debt crisis. A summitof the G8 leading industrialized nations camedown solidly in favour of a push to balanceEuropean austerity — an approach long drivenby German Chancellor Angela Merkel —with a new dose of US-style stimulus seen asvital to healing ailing euro-zone economies.But it was clear that divisions remained.

“We commit to take all necessary steps tostrengthen and reinvigorate our economiesand combat financial stresses, recognizingthat the right measures are not the same foreach of us,” the leaders said in a joint statementissued at their meeting at the Camp Davidpresidential retreat in Maryland.

The overarching message from the

CAMP ROUND MEADOW, 20May—Britain may keep asmall number of soldiers inAfghanistan to fight terrorismafter 2014, when NATOforces are due to end combatoperations, a senior Britishgovernment official said onSaturday.

It is the first time Britainhas given any indication itmay keep forces inAfghanistan after 2014 apartfrom a small trainingcontingent.

Britain plans towithdraw 500 soldiers fromits 9,500-strong force inAfghanistan this year beforeending combat operations in2014 when Afghan securityforces are due to have takenover responsibility forsecurity.

“As we’ve saidpreviously, British forces willnot remain in a combat role inAfghanistan beyond 2014,”the official said before thestart of a NATO summit inChicago on Sunday that willbe dominated byAfghanistan.

“The majority of forcesthat remain in Afghanistanwill be in a training and

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti, US PresidentBarack Obama, Britain’s Prime Minister David

Cameron, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev andGermany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (L-R) speak at the

start of the first working session of the G8 Summit atCamp David, Maryland, on 19 May, 2012. —REUTERS

World leaders back Greece, vow tocombat financial turmoil

A British Army soldierof the 2nd Battalion,The Royal Gurkha

Rifles waves to Afghanchildren during a patrol

outside Patrol BaseChilli near the town of

Lashkar Gah inHelmand province,

southern Afghanistan,on 14 July, 2011.

Picture taken on 14July, 2011.—REUTERS

TEHERAN, 20 May—Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi and his Germancounterpart discussed theforthcoming nuclear talksbetween Iran and the fivepermanent members of theUN Security Council plusGermany (P5+1) in a phoneconversation on Saturday,the official IRNA news agencyreported.

Salehi said that Iran isattending the next round ofthe talks, set to be held inBaghdad on 23 May, with“good will” anddetermination, adding thatthe other party is alsoexpected to come to Baghdadwith constructive spirit toensure the success of the talks,said the report.—Xinhua

YANLING, 20 May—Onebody of the 20 victims killedin the central China tunnelexplosion Saturday has beenretrieved, rescuers toldXinhua in the wee hours ofSunday.

When the blast occurred,a total of 24 people wereworking at the Bamianshantunnel, which is being builtfor the Yanling-Rucheng

ROME, 20 May— One student was killedand other seven were injured in a bombexplosion outside a school on Saturday inthe southern Italian city of Brindisi.

One girl was killed in the explosionhappened short before 8:00 am local timeas the students were entering the building,while another seven were rushed to hospital,of which one was “in serious peril of life”.

The explosive device was reportedlyplaced outside the high school in Brindisi,a city in the southern region of Puglia, Raistate television said.

The surrounding area and all schools inthe city were evacuated, while police wasinvestigating over the case.

According to local prosecutor MiltoDenozza, “there were too many elementsshowing the explosion was not a fatalitybut a tragic attack.”

“The school was named after GiovanniFalcone (an anti-mafia magistrate who waskilled in a bomb attack in 1992) and islocated in front of a court. Plus, today ananti-mafia march was planned to take placehere,” he told Rai.

Xinhua

KABUL, 20 May—A suicide bomber ona motorcycle detonated explosives in anAfghan district close to the border withPakistan, killing at least 10 peopleincluding children, officials said onSaturday.

The attack comes one day ahead of aNATO summit in Chicago, where thecoalition intends to spell out its role inAfghanistan after foreign combat troopsleave by the end of 2014.

“The bomber blew himself up in acrowded market and it was powerful,” saidSardar Mohammad Zazai, police chief ofeastern Khost Province.

He said the assailant was heading for apolice checkpoint in the Ali Sher Districtalong the border with Pakistan’s “lawlesstribal areas”.

No one claimed responsibility for theattack, which killed six children, one civilian

Iranian,German FMs

discussupcoming

nuclear talks

Explosion kills one, injuresseven outside school in

southern Italy

Italian firefighters stand on the sitewhere an explosive device blasted

outside “Francesca Morvillo Falcone”high school in Brindisi, Italy,on 19 May, 2012.—INTERNET

20 dead in expressway tunnel blast in central China

Rescuers take a rest at the site ofexplosion in Yanling, central China’s

Hunan Province, on 20 May, 2012.Twenty people were killed in an explosion

when a vehicle carrying explosives wasunloading inside an under-construction

expressway tunnel in Hunan on Saturdaymorning.—XINHUA

UK may keep troops inAfghanistan post-2014 to fight

terrorismmentoring role,” he said,speaking on condition ofanonymity.

“But I wouldn’t rule outa small number of forcesplaying a counterterrorismrole if needed. This would bein keeping with how we areworking to protect ourselvesfrom the terrorism threatemanating from other partsof the world, such as the

Arabian Peninsula,” theofficial said.

Britain has saidpreviously that about 120British troops will help trainAfghan officers at a militaryacademy modeled onBritain’s prestigiousSandhurst.

Britain, which currentlyhas the second largest foreignforce fighting the Taleban inAfghanistan after the UnitedStates, has not yet set outplans for how many troops itwill withdraw in 2013 and2014.

Internet

Motorcycle bomber kills 10 in easternAfghanistan

adult and three policemen. Eleven years intothe NATO-led war against the Taleban, theIslamist group holds large sway inAfghanistan’s restive south and east, wherethey enjoy enormous popular support.

Afghan security officials have said theyexpect this year’s summer fighting season tobe bloody as the third phase of a securityhandover from NATO to Afghan forces getsunderway.

Reuters

expressway, in Yanlingcounty of Zhuzhou city,Hunan Province.

Four of them were pulledout, including one in criticalconditions and anotherslightly injured, the Hunanprovincial transportdepartment said in astatement.

The two injured havebeen hospitalized.

Rescuers haveconducted life detectionsfor six times at the site, withno sign of life detected,Yang Jun with the firebrigade of Yanling countytold Xinhua.

The explosion happe-ned at about 8:30 am whena vehicle carryingexplosives was unloadingin the tunnel that involves adesigned length of 2,355meters. The explosives werecontained in 12 cases eachwith a weight of 24kilograms, according to thecontractor of the tunnelproject.

An investigation intothe cause of the explosion isunder way, and rescue andclear-up work is continuing.

Xinhua

summit hosted by President Barack Obamareflected his own concerns that the euro-zonecontagion, which threatens the future ofEurope’s 17-country single currency bloc,could hurt the fragile US recovery and his re-election chances in November.

With Greece’s political and economicupheaval high on the summit’s agenda andstoking concerns over instability in Spainand Italy, Group of Eight leaders sought tocalm the situation. In the first line of their finaleconomic communique, they essentiallyendorsed calls to broaden Europe’s focusbeyond German-backed belt-tightening,calling it “our imperative” to promote growth.

Anxious to quell investor fears, the G8said: “We reaffirm our interest in Greeceremaining in the euro zone while respectingits commitments.” But leaders offered nospecific prescription for extracting Athensfrom its worsening crisis.—Reuters

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4 THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Monday, 21 May, 2012

Science & Technology Science & Technology Science & TechnologyFossils of bird-like dinosaurs discovered in

Australia

Fossils of bird-like dinosaurs discoveredin Australia.—INTERNET

SYDNEY, 20 May —Seven different killerdinosaurs once inhabited what is nowsoutheastern Australia, ranging in size fromcat-sized killers to a nine-metre-long T Rex-like predator.

The discovery represents a higher thanexpected biodiversity of meat-eating,theropod (bird-like) dinosaur fossils frombetween 105 and 120 million years ago, saidgeoscientists and researchers from Australia’sMonash University and Museum Victoria.

“We had not expected to find fossils fromsuch a large range of dinosaur species in thisarea. The fossils we have collected range from

tiny, cat-sized killers to Australia’s version ofT Rex, a nine-metre-long predator with powerfularms and razor-sharp claws,” Tom Rich fromMonash University, who led the research, said.

“In total, 1,500 isolated bones and teethof various kinds of dinosaurs have been foundin Victoria so far. Their meaning is onlybeginning to be unravelled by detailed studyand comparisons with other fossils world-wide,” added Rich, the journal Public Libraryof Science reports. At the time these dinosaursruled, southern Australia was part of theAntarctic Circle. Despite the cold, there was ahigh diversity of small predators, similar to theVelociraptor, featured in Jurassic Park,according to a Monash statement.

“One of the reasons for the success ofsmall, theropod dinosaurs may be their warm-blood. As close relatives of birds, they hadfeathery insulation which helped maintainhigh body temperatures. The cool, dampclimate may also explain the discovery of thesame dinosaur species in both Australia andthe northern continents,” Rich said.

The research team included experts LesleyKool, Dave Pickering and professor PatVickers-Rich. —Internet

SpaceX faces tricky tests inlaunch to ISS

CAPE CANAVERAL, 20May—A private spacecraftset for launch faces a series oftests and maneuvers before itwill be allowed to dock withthe International SpaceStation, officials say.

Scheduled to launchfrom Florida’s Cape CanaveralSaturday, SpaceX’sunmanned Dragon space-craft will have to prove it’s nothreat to the station or thestation’s crew of six before itwill be given the go-ahead todock with the ISS, FloridaToday reported Friday.

Until then the capsulewill remain beyond the “Keep

Artist’s impression of Dragon spacecraft with solarpanels deployed.—INTERNET

This is a reconstruction of Carbonemys preying upon a small crocodylomorph.INTERNET

Fossil of giant turtle found in ColombiaRALEIGH, 20 May —

Paleontologists say they’vefound fossilized remains ofan ancient turtle with a shellthe size of a small car thatlived 60 million years ago inSouth America.

Dubbed Carbonemyscofrinii, or “coal turtle,” thefossil was discovered in a coalmine in Colombia, researchersfrom North Carolina StateUniversity reported onThursday.

The fossilized shell wasabout 5 feet 7 inches long,about the size of a Smart car,

and the fossilized skull hadmassive, powerful jaws thatwould have enabled theomnivore to eat anything frommollusks to smaller turtles oreven crocodiles, researcherssaid.

“We had recoveredsmaller turtle specimens fromthe site.

But after spending aboutfour days working onuncovering the shell, I realizedthat this particular turtle wasthe biggest anyone had foundin this area for this time period— and it gave us the first

Pear/apple hybrid ‘papple’ coming to UKLONDON, 20 May—A fruit

that looks and tastes like anapple but with the skin andtexture of a pear will go on salein Britain, luxury food retailerMarks and Spencer says.

The hybrid fruit is so newit doesn’t have an official nameyet, although Marks andSpencer has dubbed it a“papple,” Sky News reported

on Friday. “This is one of themost exciting new varieties offruit we have seen for severalyears,” M&S fruit expertShazad Rehman said.

“We know our customerslike to try new and interestingfruit and we hope this will besomething they will reallyenjoy.”

The fruit, a cross between

evidence of giantism infreshwater turtles,” NC Statedoctoral student EdwinCadena said.

Smaller relatives ofCarbonemys existedalongside dinosaurs but thegiant version appeared fivemillion years after thedinosaurs vanished,researchers said, during aperiod when giant varieties ofmany different reptiles,including the largest snakeever discovered, lived in thispart of South America.

Internet

European and Asian pearvarieties that resulted ahybrid similar to an apple, isgrown in New Zealand.

Marks and Spenser saidit hopes to begin growing thehybrid fruit in England in 2015.The fruit will be available inthe company’s stores nextweek and will sell for $1.50each.—Internet

Out Sphere,” a 220-yardsafety zone that surroundsthe orbiting spacelaboratory.

If systems tests andmaneuvers are successful,SpaceX will be allowed torendezvous with the station.

“This is pretty tricky.And also, for the public outthere, they may not realizethat the space station iszooming around Earth every90 minutes, and it’s going17,000 mph,” SpaceX ChiefExecutive Officer Elon Musksaid.

“This is something thatis going 12 times faster than a

bullet from an assault rifle.So it’s hard.”

The test will alsodetermine if the SpaceXFalcon 9 rocket can put the

cargo-carrying Dragon oncourse for the ISS and reserveenough fuel for the requiredmaneuvers on the crucial testflight.—Internet

Israel to add magnesium todrinking water

JERUSALEM, 20 May —The Israeli government saysit is launching a project torestore the magnesium todrinking water that is lost inthe process of desalination.

Israel gets more of itsdrinking water supply fromdesalination than any othercountry in the world.

Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu andDeputy Health MinisterYa’acov Litzman said a pilotproject for magnesiumrestoration would be set up inAshkelon, The JerusalemPost reported on Thursday.

Studies have shown

Children drink water at a water purification station on 27 October, 2009.—INTERNET

Facebook hacking brings 1-year prison termLONDON, 20 May—A 21-

year-old British man has beensentenced to a year in prisonfor hacking into an AmericanFacebook user’s account lastyear.

Gareth Crosskey hadpleaded guilty to two countsof breaching the UnitedKingdom’s ComputerMisuse Act of 1990 by illegallyaccessing a Facebookaccount belonging to an

unidentified individual in theUnited States, ZDNet.comreported on Thursday. TheFBI, after being contacted bythe victim, traced the sourceof the hack to Britain, andturned the investigation overto the Metropolitan PoliceCentral e-Crime Unit, whichtracked down the suspect,arresting Crosskey at hishome in July 2011.

Crosskey pleaded guilty

to using a computer to gainunauthorized access to aprogramme/data as well asperforming unauthorized actswith intent to impair operationof, or prevent/hinder accessto, a computer.

“The PCeU are workingto detect and bring before thecourts those responsible forthis type of offense,” theMetropolitan Police said in astatement.—Internet

magnesium is vital to healthbecause it maintains theheartbeat and thus preventsheart attacks.

The cost of magnesiumrestoration has been thesubject of debate for morethan three years.

The Water Authoritymaintains adding the mineralwould cost more than $25million annually andsignificantly hike theconsumer price of tap water,which is already high.

The Health Ministryargues the cost will be muchlower and not exceed $5million annually.—Internet

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Business & Health Business & Health Business & HealthRoyal Caribbean to pull back

from EuropeMIAMI, 20 May—The Royal Caribbean cruise line said

trips in Europe would be curtailed in 2013 as demand for ticketshas been slack. USA Today reported on Friday that the cruiseline said it is sending nine ships to Europe for the travel seasonnext year, whereas this year it is sending 12.

Next year, the company plans to offer 276 trips in Europerunning 58 different routes.

Three ships will be based out of Britain and will managedtrips to the Baltics, the British Isles, the Mediterranean and theCanary Islands, the newspaper said.

Other northern routes will head for the Norwegian Fjords,Russia, Copenhagen and Stockholm. The cruise line will alsobe busy in the Mediterranean. Five ships will be based out ofBarcelona, Civitavecchia (near Rome) and Venice, thenewspaper said. The sluggish economy in Europe has alsocaused rival cruise line Ocean Cruises to cut back on trips in

A single visa can speed things up in the cruise businessas ships use Dubai as the hub to sail to other countries in

the region such as Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.INTERNET

Europe. In March, Ocean Cruises said it would pull somevessels out of the European market and deploy them in Alaskafor the summer of 2013.—Internet

China is huge market forCanadian lobster

BORDEN-CARLETON, 20 May—China is buying lobstersfrom Canada’s Atlantic region at a rate 30 times greater thantwo years ago and is one of the area’s biggest customers,officials say. After buying $1 million worth of lobster in 2010,China’s purchases increased to $30 million in 2011 and areexpected to continue growing. “I believe China will becomeour No 2 export customer this year,” Geoff Irvine, executivedirector of the Lobster Council of Canada, told the CanadianBroadcasting Corp. Belgium is the second largest buyer forAtlantic Lobster, acting as a gateway for Canadian lobstersales into Europe. The United States remains the top market.

The Chinese like big lobsters, preferring those that are 2pounds and up, industry officials said. By-the-Water Shellfishon Prince Edward Island ships live lobsters from AtlanticCanada to China year round. A new call for lobsters comesfrom China every few days, head of sales Ryan Tremere said.

“It provides a few extra challenges. It’s a 2-day shipmenttime but its role has become increasingly important for us andit looks like it will continue,” he said. “The growth in China willcome because the economy is still growing,” he said. “Andseafood plays a larger role in their diet than it does in ourdiet.”—Internet

foods in Britain could cut upto 2,700 heart disease deathsa year, the researchers said.

US opinion polls on a taxon sugary drinks range from37 percent to 72 percentsupportive, but the foodindustry has said the taxesresult in fewer products soldand would result in joblosses, Mytton said.

The findings werereported in the BritishMedical Journal.

Internet

A woman sits at the NationalMall in Washington DC on 13August, 2010. Obesity in theUnited States has increased to2.4 million obese Americanssince 2007, according to a reportreleased this week by the Centresfor Disease Control andPrevention (CDC).—INTERNET

Food fat tax would have to be 20 percent

Health Tip: Put the brakes on drowsy drivingNodding off may be okay while you’re chaperoning a kiddy movie or at your mother-in-

law’s birthday party, but not when you’re behind the wheel.The National Sleep Foundation says these warning signs mean you’re too tired to drive:* Having difficulty focusing, heavy eyelids or frequent blinking.* Daydreaming or wandering thoughts.* Missing traffic signs or exits, or inability to remember the last few miles that you

drove.* Rubbing your eyes, yawning, or difficulty holding your head up.* Drifting in and out of lanes, driving over a rumble strip, or riding too close to the car

in front.—Internet

Trash best way to disposeof unused drugs

Study unpicks gene changes behind breast cancerLONDON, 20 May—

Scientists have mapped thecomplete genetic codes of 21breast cancers and created acatalogue of the mutationsthat accumulate in breast cells,raising hopes that the diseasemay be able to be spottedearlier and treated moreeffectively in future.

The research, the first ofits kind, untangles the genetichistory of how cancer evolves,allowing scientists to identifymutational patterns that fuelthe growth of breast tumors,and start to work out theprocesses behind them.

“These findings haveimplications for ourunderstanding of how breastcancers develop over thedecades before diagnosis inadults and might help to findpossible targets for improveddiagnosis or therapeuticintervention in the future,”said Mike Stratton, who ledthe research team.

Breast cancer kills morethan 450,000 women a yearworldwide and is the mostcommon cancer amongwomen, accounting for 16percent of all cases, accordingto the World HealthOrganization (WHO).

A study last year by theInstitute for Health Metricsand Evaluation in the UnitedStates found that global breastcancer cases have more thandoubled in just three decades,from 641,000 cases in 1980 to

1.6 million cases in 2010 - apace that far exceeds globalpopulation growth.

“This is the first timewe’ve been able to delve fullyinto breast cancer genomesin such a thorough way,” saidPeter Campbell, head ofcancer genetics and genomicsat the Wellcome Trust SangerInstitute in Cambridge, wherethe studies were led.

The work had givenscientists “a full panoramicview of the cancer genome”and helped them identify“mutational patterns ratherthan individual mutations inspecific genes”, he added.DNA MUTATIONS

“We’ve known for manyyears now that all cancers aredue to abnormalities ofDNA...that occur in everysingle cell of the body overthe course of a lifetime,” saidStratton.

“But although we’veknown that, it’s remarkablehow rudimentary ourknowledge is about what theprocesses are that cause theseabnormalities, thesemutations in our DNA.”

Stratton’s teamsequenced the genomes ofthe 21 breast cancers andcatalogued all the mutations.They found five majorprocesses that cause one letterof code to be changed toanother letter. Genetic codecomes in four DNA letters,

ANN ARBOR, 20 May—Discarding unused medications inthe trash is a better way to limit the risk of poisoning and reduceair and water pollution, US researchers suggest.

First author Sherri Cook, a doctoral student at the Universityof Michigan, and Nancy Love, a professor in the department ofcivil and environmental engineering, compared the totalemissions created by take-back, trash and toilet disposal methodsof leftover medications.

In most cases, the US Food and Drug Administrationrecommends throwing the medications away, but only if peopledon’t have access to a take-back programme.

Flushing unused pills down the toilet is no longer advised,as the active ingredients in drugs have been found in drinkingwater and aquatic environments, but about 40 percent still flushunused medication down the toilet, Cook explained.

In medication take-back programs, the returned drugs areincinerated as hazardous waste, Cook said.

“National policy seems to be changing to support take-back programmes, and we don’t know if that’s justified,” Cooksaid in a statement.

The study, published in Environmental Science &Technology, found if everyone trashed their extra drugs, theamount of active pharmaceutical ingredients in the environmentwould be significantly reduced.

The researchers encourage policymakers to focus ongetting more people to get rid of medicines by trash, rather thantake-back.

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A,C,G and T.Stratton said one of the

most exciting findings wasthat one of these processes ischaracterized by smallpockets of massively mutatedregions of the genome.

This sudden “storm” ofmutations is often seen inbreast cancers, he explainedin an audio briefing.

While his team don’tfully understand the processbehind these storms, theythink it may be down tocomponents of the cell whosenormal function is to edit, ormutate, DNA.

“What we believe...isthat sometimes in normalcells...this stops functioningproperly and over-functions.It causes too many mutationsand the accumulation ofthose mutations pushes thecell along the line to become

A woman undergoes a free mammogram inside Peru’sfirst mobile unit for breast cancer detection, in Lima on 8

March, 2012.—REUTERS

OXFORD, 20 May—Taxeson unhealthy food mightimprove health, but the taxwould need to be at least 20percent to have a significanteffect, British researcherssaid.

Oliver Mytton andcolleagues at the Universityof Oxford in England saidevidence suggests taxing awide range of unhealthy foodsor nutrients is likely to resultin greater health benefits thannarrow taxes, although the

strongest evidence base isfor a tax on sugary drinks.

For example, a US studyfound a 35 percent tax onsugar-sweetened drinks —$0.45 per drink — led to a 26percent decline in sales, theresearchers said.

Models in other studiesshowed a 20 percent tax onsugary drinks in the UnitedStates would reduce obesitylevels by 3.5 percent, whileextending the value added taxat 17.5 percent to unhealthy

China bought$30 million

worth of lobsterfrom AtlanticCanada lastyear.Chinabought $30

million worth oflobster from

Atlantic Canadalast year.INTERNET

cancer.”The team found that

these and other mutationsaccumulate in breast cells overmany years, initially slowly,but picking up greatermomentum as genetic damagebuilds up.

By the time the breastcancers are large enough tobe diagnosed, they are madeup of a number of geneticallyrelated families of cells, withone family dominating thecancer, Stratton explained.

Reuters

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Senators unveil ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ for taxdodgers

WASHINGTON, 20 May—Two US lawmakersannounced legislation onThursday to punishAmericans who renouncetheir citizenship to dodgetaxes.

Democratic SensCharles Schumer of New Yorkand Bob Casey Jr ofPennsylvania unveiled the“Ex-Patriot Act” at a Pressconference on Thursday, aresponse to Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, anAmerican citizen born in Brazilwho now resides in Singaporeand who renounced hiscitizenship in September 2011

Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-PA)announce the ‘Ex-PATRIOT’ (Expatriation

Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives forOffshore Tenancy) Act aimed at taxing expatriateseven after they flee the United States and take upresidence in a foreign country, on Capitol Hill in

Washington on 17 May, 2012.—INTERNET

in a move that will save himan estimated $67 million to$100 million in US taxes.

Schumer said Saverin’sactions were “an outrage,”adding Saverin “wants to de-friend the United States ofAmerica just to avoid payingtaxes. We aren’t going to lethim get away with it.” He saidSaverin “turned his back onthe country that welcomedhim and kept him safe,educated him and helped himbecome a billionaire.”

Casey called it “an insultto the American people” that“cries out for some basicjustice.”

Iran’sAhmadinejadkeen to attend

LondonOlympics

DUBAI, 20 May— IranianPresident MahmoudAhmadinejad said onThursday he was keen toattend the 2012 LondonOlympics to support hiscountry’s athletes but thatthe British authorities had“problems” with hosting him,the official IRNA newsagency said.

Iran said last year it mightboycott the LondonOlympics because it believedthe event’s logo, whichdepicts the year 2012 withfour jagged multi-colouredfigures, resembled the wordZion and was therefore“racist”. Zion is a term thatrefers to the city of Jerusalemand Iran does not recogniseIsrael. But Ahmadinejadappears to have had a dramaticchange of heart, though itwas unclear whether he hadmade an official request toattend the games.

“I would like to be among

Iranian PresidentMahmoud

Ahmadinejad.—REUTERS

China jails smugglingkingpin Lai for life

BEIJING, 20 May—AChinese court convicted LaiChangxing, who wasdeported from Canada, onsmuggling and briberycharges and jailed him forlife on Friday, the officialXinhua news agencyreported. The convictioneffectively ends the career ofa man whose case taintedruling Chinese CommunistParty officials — includingJia Qinglin, who sits on theelite Standing Committee —with rumours of malfeasance,collusion and dereliction ofduty. Lai was jailed by a courtin Xiamen, a coastal city ineast China where he wasaccused of running a vastsmuggling ring in the 1990sprotected by senior officialswho were paid off. “Thecrimes involve massive sumsand particularly serious

circumstances,” the courtsaid, according to the Xinhuareport, which cast theconviction as showing theruling Communist Party’sdetermination to fightcorruption. “The Chinesegovernment’s determinationto attack crime and root outcorruption is unwavering, thereport said.

Lai can still appealagainst the conviction andsentence. The courtconcluded that, from 1991,Lai “established companies,strongholds and networks inHong Kong and Xiamen toform a smuggling clique” thatcheated customs inspectorsto import cigarettes, cars, oilproducts, industrial materialsand textiles worth a total ofsome 27.4 billion yuan.

Lai bribed 64 officialsthrough gifts of cash, realestate and vehicles worthsome 39.1 million yuan, andhe evaded taxes totalling14.0 billion yuan.

Lai’s crimes occurred inthe special economic zone ofXiamen in Fujian Provincein the mid-1990s when Jia,now the Communist Party’sfourth most senior leader, wasthe province’s party boss.

Reuters

The proposed bill,explained in a news release onThursday, requires arenounced citizens’ USassets to be taxed at 30percent, double the usual rate,if he or she is determined tohave a net worth of exceeding$2 million or an average taxliability of $148,000 over thelast five years.

While the USConstitution forbidsCongress from passing lawsto punish an individual,Schumer said his bill wouldapply to anyone in a situationsimilar to Saverin’s, The Hillreported.—Internet

Iranian athletes in the 2012London Olympics to supportthem but they (the hostcountry) have problems withthat,” IRNA quoted him assaying.

Relations between Iranand Britain remain strainedover Teheran’s refusal to openup its nuclear programme tointernational oversight and itsfailure to allay Western fearsthat it is seeking to develop anuclear weapons capability.Teheran denies it has any suchintentions.—Reuters

France’s left-wing leadership starts witha pay cut

PARIS, 20 May—France’s new left-winggovernment started work onThursday with pledges tocombat excessive austeritybut better manage publicfinances, marking the debutwith a 30 percent cut in payfor President FrancoisHollande and all ministers.

The sizeable wage

France’s PresidentFrancois Hollande(2ndR) and Prime

Minister Jean-MarcAyrault (3rdR) pose forthe traditional familyphoto with the womenmembers of the newlyformed governmentoutside the Elysee

Palace in Paris on 17May, 2012. —REUTERS

Plans to strike Iran “ready”, says US Israel envoyJERUSALEM , 20 May—US plans for a possible military

strike on Iran are ready and the option is “fully available”,the US ambassador to Israel said, days before Teheran resumestalks with world powers which suspect it of seeking todevelop nuclear arms.

Like Israel, the United States has said it considers militaryforce a last resort to prevent Iran using its uranium enrichmentto make a bomb. Iran insists its nuclear programme is for purelycivilian purposes.

“It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically andthrough the use of pressure than to use military force,”Ambassador Dan Shapiro said in remarks about Iran aired byIsrael’s Army Radio on Thursday.

“But that doesn’t mean that option is not fully available— not just available, but it’s ready. The necessary planninghas been done to ensure that it’s ready,” said Shapiro, whothe radio station said had spoken on Tuesday.

The United States, Britain, France, Russia, China andGermany have been using sanctions and negotiations to try

Lai Changxing, one ofChina’s most wantedfugitives.—REUTERS

Men walk under Iranian national flags at a park innorthern Teheran on 5 March, 2012.

REUTERS

reduction was endorsed at afirst meeting of the 34-minister team, a day afterGermany’s governmentawarded rises to its ministersand Chancellor AngelaMerkel, whose pay willovertake Hollande’s.

In a highly symbolicdebut, Hollande chaired afirst cabinet meeting where

backdated to mid-May inHollande’s case, govern-ment spokeswoman NajatVallaud-Belkacem said.

A government state-ment said the cuts wouldreduce the gross pay ofministers to 9,940 euros amonth from 14,200 euros andcut the salary paid to bothHollande and Prime MinisterJean-Marc Ayrault to 14,910euros a month, from 21,300euros.

The cabinet met on apublic holiday at the ElyseePalace, the presidentialoffices vacated byconservative NicolasSarkozy on Tuesday afterhanding Hollande thecountry’s nuclear codes.

In Germany, which hasweathered several years offinancial and economicturmoil better than Franceand far better than the likesof debt-crushed Greece orIreland, the wage trend wasin the opposite direction.

On Wednesday,Merkel’s cabinet gavethemselves a 5.7 percent risethat will push Merkel’s payup by 930 euros per monthfrom her current base pay ofjust over 16,000 euros amonth.—Reuters

the 17 men and 17 womenministers gave the nod to apay reduction that will trimsalaries by 30 percent,knocking the wage Hollandewill earn to just under 15,000euros a month.

The pay cut, im-plemented by a decree theministers approved, takesimmediate effect and willrequire a law but be

to persuade Iran to curb its uranium enrichment, which canproduce fuel for reactors, medical isotopes, and, at higherlevels of purification, fissile material for warheads.

New talks opened in Istanbul last month and resume on23 May in Baghdad.

Israel, which is widely assumed to have the Middle East’sonly atomic arsenal, feels threatened by the prospect of itsarch-foe Iran going nuclear and has hinted it could launchpreemptive war.

But many analysts believe the United States alone hasthe military clout to do lasting damage to Iran’s nuclearprogramme.

In January, Shapiro told an Israeli newspaper the UnitedStates was “guaranteeing that the military option is ready andavailable to the president at the moment he decides to use it”.

US lawmakers are considering additional legislation thatwould increase pressure on Iran, with further measures topunish foreign companies for dealing with Iran in anycapacity.—Reuters

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More minority babies than whites in USdifferent than today.

The figures are alsolikely to reignite debate overwhat it means to be anAmerican in an election yearwhere race, poverty andimmigration are emotionalcampaign issues.

The 197.5 millionwhites of all ages in the

WASHINGTON, 20 May—For the first time, there aremore black, Hispanic andother minority babies beingborn in the United States thanwhite babies, according togovernment data released onThursday that confirm a long-growing trend.

US Census Bureau datashow the United States is onits way to becoming“majority minority,” withalmost half of all youngchildren currently fromminority groups, includingHispanic, black and Asian.

As of 1 July, 2011, 50.4percent of babies youngerthan age 1 were minorities orof more than one race, upfrom 49.5 percent in 2010,the data showed.

Among childrenyounger than age 5, 49.7percent were a minority ormixed race last year, up from

49.0 percent in 2010,according to the agency,which tracks the USpopulation.

While the country haslong been on course to seewhites lose their majority, thelatest figures make it clearthat the next generations ofAmericans will look far

Newborn baby Makenzie, daughter of StephanieSanchez, 25, and Kenneth Vega, is wheeled to a nursery

after she was born at 10:25am at Wyckoff HeightsMedical Centre in the Brooklyn borough of New York

on 31 October, 2011. —REUTERS

United States still make upnearly two-thirds of thenation, the Census Bureausaid. Its data show 36.6percent of the US populationwere minorities in 2011compared to 36.1 percent in2010.

Some experts on race andethnicity say currentimmigrants are far less likelyto “melt” into US culture,while others say today’sminorities may soon see theirheritage blend as whites did.Generations ago there werenot “whites” but Europeangroups that were identifiedas Irish, German, Italian andGreek, among others.

The growing Hispanicpopulation and relatedimmigration concerns,particularly in southern statesthat border Mexico, are majorissues in November’spresidential and con-gressional elections.

Reuters

Asia’s leading internationalart fair opens in HK

HONG KONG, 20 May—Asia’s leading international artfair opened in Hong Kong on Thursday, bringing together arecord 266 galleries from across the globe.

With Hong Kong aspiring to become the art hub of theregion, the event also projects a uniquely Asian flavour, withtwo sections dedicated solely to Asian artists. ART HK,Asia’s leading art show, is sure to have art lovers buzzing.

Organizers said the city’s blend of east and west providesthe perfect platform for the international art fair.

Hong Kong is opening up as a hotspot for collectors,with no tax on the import and export of art. It is also now thethird largest art market in the world by auction turnover.

Magnus Renfrew, fair director of ART HK, said: “In abroader sense, I think Hong Kong has the potential to becomea great cultural hub because there are so many differentnationalities that come together here, it is a very internationalcity. “It is place where everybody feels equally at home andit is a place that has always been very welcoming of outsideviews and interests.” Running for its fifth year, the fair hasbecome a key event on the international art calendar. And itaims to showcase talent in the region, with two sectionsdedicated exclusively to Asian artists. One of the highlightsis a BMW M1 race car, painted by Andy Warhol in 1979. Itis being featured to pay tribute to the Father of Pop Art, onthe 25th anniversary of his passing.—Internet

China firms blast new US duties on solar cells

A worker monitors the production of solarcells at a Trina Solar lab in Changzhou in

2009.—INTERNET

CHANGZHOU, 20 May—Chinesecompanies have slammed the United Statesas “short-sighted” and warned of a trade warafter it imposed hefty duties on solar cells itsaid were being sold at artificially low prices.

The US Commerce Department onThursday slapped levies of between 31 and250 percent on the Chinese solar cellproducers in retaliation for the so-called“dumping”. The move is the latest in a long-running trade row between Washington andBeijing, who have clashed over a range ofissues that have on occasion had to be settledby the World Trade Organization.

China’s Suntech Power, which wasspecifically named in the US governmentinvestigation, called the move out of touchwith reality. “These duties do not reflect thereality of a highly-competitive global solarindustry,” Andrew Beebe, Suntech’s chiefcommercial officer, said in a statement lateon Thursday.

He said the company, the world’s largestmaker of solar cells, would work with the USgovernment to refute the duties.

“Despite these harmful trade barriers,

we hope that the US, China and all countrieswill engage in constructive dialogue to averta deepening solar trade war,” Beebe said.

Another company named by the USgovernment, Trina Solar, said it would stillattempt to serve the US market despite theduties and remained committed to keepingprices low. “This is simply what is required tounlock the next level of fossil fuel replacementin the United States,” Mark Kingsley, Trina’schief commercial officer, said in anotherstatement.—Internet

India’s poorest turn video journalists to fill news gapMUMBAI, 20 May—One

video shows police beatingprotesters with sticks.Another shows two lifeless,dirty bodies dragged fromtheir workplace in thesewers. In a third, a manexplains why his hand wasslashed.

The disturbing clips andpersonal stories have acommon thread: all thevictims are “untouchables”,now known as Dalits, who areat the bottom of India’s rigidHindu caste hierarchy.

The Dalit with the cuthand says he was harmed fordrinking from a pot meantfor higher castes, whilefilthy and dangerous sewerwork is a profession reservedfor families of the lowestcaste.

Such everyday discri-mination is nothing new, butit is rarely documented withsuch intimacy and insider

Video journalist and slum dweller Amol Lalzare, (L)interviews Hasina Mukhtar Qureshi for his news report

on ‘eve teasing’ in Mumbai’s slums.—INTERNET

knowledge in India’smainstream domestic newsmedia.

“The mainstream mediajust report on the superficialevents but they don’t havedepth,” said Amol Lalzare, aDalit and one of the“community correspond-

ents” working for VideoVolunteers, a media andhuman rights group.

I stay here, I know what’sgoing on, and I also want togive solutions through mynews clips,” added Lalzare,who makes videos in theMumbai slums with a camera

not much larger than a mobilephone.

The 27-year-olddocuments a range of issuesaffecting the poor, from watershortages and poor sanitationto corruption and sexualharassment in the slums, wheremore than half of the city’sresidents live.

In their recently-launched campaign againstcaste discrimination,including a petition toproperly end the illegalpractice, Video Volunteersfrom across India havereleased footage to show theproblem is still entrenched.They captured Dalit womenwho take their sandals off towalk past the “big people’shouses”, a barber admittingDalits don’t come to his shop,and a school where Dalitchildren eat separately.

“It makes me nothingbut angry,” vented onefemale interviewee.

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CHICAGO, 20 May—Three young men were arrested insouth Chicago just days ahead of a NATO summit forsuspected attempts to attack President Barack Obama’scampaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house andpolice stations with “incendiary devices,” local mediareported Saturday.

The men, who are held on 1.5 million US dollars bondapiece, are charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism,providing material support for terrorism and possession of anexplosive or incendiary device.

The three men are self-proclaimed anarchists andmembers of “Black Bloc,” a band of protesters who typicallymask their faces to avoid identification.

Their arrests were the result of an investigation sinceearly May into a group suspected of making Molotovcocktails - crude bombs usually created by filling glass beerbottles with gasoline, according to local court records.

The men travelled from Florida to the Chicago areaahead of this weekend’s NATO meetings in order to preparea multi-staged attack against various targets in the city,prosecutors said. According to court documents, the menplanned to first attack four Chicago police stations anddestroy several squad cars with “destructive devices” inorder to divert attention.—Xinhua

Three men arrested forattempt to attack Obama HQ

in Chicago

In this 17 May, 2012, file photo, fire burns through treeson the Hewlett wildfire in the Poudre Canyon northwestof Fort Collins, Colo. The fire, which started on 14 May,about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins, had promptedofficials to evacuate about 80 homes, but all residentswere allowed to return by Friday night. No buildings

have been damaged, and the blaze was about 45 percentcontained Saturday afternoon, on 19 May.—INTERNET

DENVER, 20 May—Lower temperatures andhigher humidity Saturdaywere helping crews assigned

Cool weather aids in fight against Colo wildfireto a wildfire that has scorched12 square miles in northernColorado, one of severalburning across the West.

The fire, which startedMonday about 20 milesnorthwest of Fort Collins, hadprompted officials toevacuate about 80 homes,but all residents were allowedto return by Friday night. Nobuildings have beendamaged, and the blaze wasabout 45 percent containedSaturday afternoon.

Reghan Cloudman withthe US Forest Service said thearea received about 0.15inches of rain Saturdaymorning, which “is betterthan nothing.” Scattered rainstorms moved through thearea in the afternoon, andtemperatures were expectedto remain in the 50sthroughout the day — morethan a 20-degree drop fromhighs during the previousthree days.—Internet

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(from page 1)The responsible persons of both sides

held a press conference with local and foreignreporters, media and journals and replied tothe questions.

`In the evening, they attended a dinnerhosted at Pyi Nyein Aye Hall of the commandin commemoration of the Union level peace

Second Union levelpeace talks between...

talks. Before dinner, they posed for adocumentary photo. During dinner, theyenjoyed variety dances of traditional Shannationals.

After the dinner, RCSS Chairman UYwat Sit presented a bouquet and cashawards to the cultural troupe. Later, UnionMinister U Aung Min and Union MinisterU Khin Maung Soe presented a bouquetand cash awards respectively to the culturaltroupe.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—An opening ceremony ofKutkai-Karlaing rural tarredroad took place at its pavilionin Khutkai on 10 May.

Pyithu Hluttaw BillCommittee Chairman U TKhun Myat and Shan StateMinister for Agriculture andIrrigation U Sai Sar Lu,Deputy Director of ShanState Development Affairscommittee (Lashio branch)and donor U Arlinkaw (a)U Eiksan cut the ribbon tocommission the facility intoservice.

Donor U Arlinkaw (a)U Eiksan pressed the buttonto open the stone inscriptionand the State A & I ministeraddressed at the event.

Under the supervisionof Kutkai Township UnionSolidarity and DevelopmentParty, the newly-openedroad was implemented withcontribution of K 318.8million by Chairman of ShweTaung Tan Co U Arlinkaw(a) U Eiksan and family andstrength of other ruraldonors.

Kutkai-Karlaing rural tarredroad commissioned into

service in KutkaiThe facility with about

7.2 miles length is givingsmooth transport to a totalof 22 villages near KarliangVillage in Kutkai Township.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—Two sons of U Kyi Lin ofKanU Village of KudoeseikVillage-tract, Nay Pyi TawPyinmana Township, here,discovered an ornamentalbackdrop of a throne cast inbronze of Pyu Periodmeasuring 19"x14"x0.25"from Leikkhun Mountain tothe east of village and U TinSoe Lwin of MezaligonVillage of Mezaligon Village-tract, Nay Pyi Taw PyinmanaTownship came acrosscounting beads of Pyu Periodas he was cutting bamboo inLewin Village in OttarathiriTownship. Likewise, KoHtaik (a) Ko Hmon Gyi andhis group found a Buddhastatue of Pyu Period with 4.5inches in height nearPhonedawgyi new monasteryon Hlegwin Mountain in NayPyi Taw Pyinmana Township.They handed over theirobjects to the Archaeology,National Museum and LibraryDepartment of the Ministry ofCulture via the TownshipGeneral AdministrativeOffice.

Yesterday morning,Director U Myo Nyunt ofPyinmana TownshipArchaeology, NationalMuseum and LibraryDepartment rewarded K403200 to U Kyi Lin and sons,K 216000 to U Tin Soe Lwinand K 270000 to Ko Htaik (a)Ko Hmon Gyi for the handoverof their ancient culturalobjectives. The departmentawards cash to those who witha sense of duty hand overancient cultural objectivesdiscovered from across thecountry. —MNA

Those whohanded over

ancient culturalobjects rewarded

Pathein Expo-2012 kicks off

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May— Ayeyawady Region ChiefMinister U Thein Aung was present at the opening of thePathein Exhibition (2012) held at the town hall of Pathein on18 May.

Ayeyawady Region Minister for Planning andEconomy U Hla Khaing, Managing Director of MyanmarAnawrahta Co and Father Land Construction Co cut theribbon to open the expo.

Afterwards, the Region Chief Minister attended thework-coordinating meeting on rural development and povertyalleviation, held at the meeting hall of the region government’soffice. He heard reports presented by District/TownshipAdministrators and left necessary instructions.—MNA

Ayeyawady

Region Chief

Minister

U Thein

Aung views

displays at

booths of

Pathein

Exhibition-

2012.

MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—Union Ministerfor Agriculture and Irrigation U Myint Hlainginspected provision of irrigation water fromright main canal of Kabaung Dam and 66-acre Palethwe hybrid paddy plantation nearPadauk Khin Village in Nyaungbin Village-tract in Ottwin Township, Bago Regionyesterday.

In meeting with local farmers near theplantation, the Union Minister called for use

Union A & I Minister visits 66-acre Palethwehybrid paddy plantation in Ottwin

of fertilizers as the nourishment to theplantation for bumper harvest, andcooperation between farmers and companiesthat purchase Palethwe hybrid paddythrough paying-in-advance system withmutual trust and switch to Palethwe hybridpaddy strains to win sustainable market.

The Union Minister presented farmerswith agricultural economy journals andfoodstuffs.—MNA

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—Myanmar delegation led byUnion Minister forCommunications, Posts andTelegraphs U Thein Tunattended KoreaCommunications Conferenceand ministerial meeting ofWorld Information andCommunications Summit atKorea CommunicationsCommission-KCC in Seoul ofthe Republic of Korea on 15and 16 May.

The Union Minister andparty attended the opening ofKorea CommunicationsConference 2012 atInternational ConventionCenter in Seoul and viewed thebooths of Korean IT andcommunication companies atthe World IT Show 2012 on 15May.

The Union Minister thenattended the ministerial meetingof World Information and

Union CPT Minister attends KoreaCommunications Conference

Communication Summittogether with ministers andministerial level officials form18 countries.

Work programmes,projects and difficultiesencountered works for ICTdevelopment drive werediscussed under new economyon connected society duringthe summit.

Union Minister U TheinTun in his discussion explainedexpansion of communicationnetwork in more open andtransparent manner in the timeof the new government, allowingof more local, foreign and privatesector’s participation incommunication sector, possiblerestrictions in ICT developmentand action plans.

The Union Minister underthe KCC arrangement on 16 Mayvisited SK Telecom (SKT) DataCentre and NetworkManagement Centre. Before the

conference, the Union Ministerand party paid a call on thecommissioners of the KCC at itsheadquarters.

The Union Minister andthe SKT CEO discussedmatters related to mutuallybeneficial cooperation forcommunication sectordevelopment of Myanmar,upgrading of internet qualityand ways to cooperate in ICThuman resourcesdevelopment.

The Union Minister andparty met Korea Global ITProject Funding andEngineering Institute (GITI)Chairman and party on 15 Maymorning to discuss provisionof capital and technicalassistance by Koreangovernment in communicationsector development projectsin Myanmar. The UnionMinister and party arrived backin Yangon on 17 May.—MNA YANGON, 20 May—

Myanmar FisheriesFederation and MyanmarPrawns Entrepreneurs’Association have arrangedto hold a talk on the topic“Media & The Public” to bespread by Writer MaungWuntha, which is sponsoredby Parami Foundation, atThiri Annawa Hall ofMyanmar FisheriesFederation on BayintnaungStreet in Insein Townshiphere at 2:00 pm on 26 May(Saturday).

MNA

Talk onMedia & ThePublic to beheld at MFFon 26 May

As a gravel roadnetworking from theKongyi junction onYangon-Mandalay

Pyidaungsu Road toAnaukUyinhmu

Village is beneficial torural people, Yedashe

TownshipDevelopment AffairsDepartment is nowupgrading the road

for convenience of thelocals.—KYEMON

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Traffic ruleschecked in

KhinUTownshipKHINU, 20 May—Under

the supervision ofCommander of KhinUTownship Police ForcePolice Captain Than Win ofSagaing Region, thecombined team of KhinUTownship Traffic RulesEnforcement Committeechecked various types ofvehicles and motorcycles thatwere not in line with trafficrules on Shwebo-YeU Road,at the entrance to the town,on 16 May morning.

Action was taken againstthe vehicles that broke trafficrules.

Kyemon

Saplings nurtured in Hsipaw toconserve environment

HSIPAW, 20 May—Staff of Hsipaw Township ForestDepartment grew 30,000 teak plants on 50 acres of land atBlock 20 of Namma Forest Reserve in Sanlaung Village in2012-2013 cultivation season under the supervision of StaffOfficer of Township Forest Department U San Yu.

Moreover, the department carried out land preparationsfor growing of over 25,000 teak, hardwood and other plantsin the rainy season.—Kyemon

PLANTNURSERY

INSPECTED:Deputy

Director-General Dr

Nyi Nyi Kyawinspects 500-

acre teakplantation ofBlock 23/26at Ngalaik

ForestReserve near

Myothit-Kanbya-MagwayRoad inTatkonrecently.FOREST

KATHA, 20 May—Jointlyorganized by Katha DistrictInformation and PublicRelations Department andKatha Township Writers andJournalists Association, the

YANGON, 20 May—Theopening of Alin SaytamanLibrary was opened in MawunVillage of Mawun Village-tract in Twantay Township ofYangon South District on 13May morning.

At the ceremony,Township Administrator UThan Zaw Han, Staff Officerof Township Information andPublic Relations DepartmentU Thet Oo, Chairperson of

Literary talks given, books donatedraising reading habit washeld at the monastery inPinmaluk Village ofLankhwa Village-tract ofKatha Township on 28 Aprilmorning.

Staff Officer U ChiMaung of DistrictInformation and PublicRelations Department,Chairman of TownshipWriters and JournalistsAssociation U San Oo(Kannaphu-San Oo) gavetalks on literary affairs.

Next, Staff Officer U ChiMaung, Chairman ofTownship WJA U San Oo,members of the committeeand Hsuhtupan Roaddonated books, publicationsand journals to Village-tractAdministrator U Ni Tar andChairman of the LibraryCommittee U Than Myint.

Myanma Alin

Township Writers Associationformed in Maubin

MAUBIN, 20 May—A ceremony to explain fifthconference of Myanmar Writers and JournalistsAssociation and form Township Writers Association, washeld at Maubin (Myoma market) on 12 May. At theceremony, Chairman of Township WJA U Myint Theinclarified the experience.

After that, Township Writers Association wasreformed and executives of Township Writers Association,elected.

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MAWLAMYINEGYUN, 20May—Opening of two-storey school shelters tookplace at Basic EducationMiddle school in Dani-chaung model village,Kyatshar village-tract inM a w l a m y i n e g y u nTownship on 14 May. TheTownship education officer,

Fire drilldemonstrated in

TachilekTACHILEIK, 20 May—

Educative talks on firepreventive measures and firedrill were held at MyomaMarket in Tachileik on 16May. Staff officer U AungKyaw Naing of Fire ServicesDepartment explained thepreventive measures againstthe fire and fire brigadesdemonstrated the fire drill.After that, officials inspectedelectric wire lines in theMarket and installation offire taps.—Myanma Alin

OTTWIN, 20 May—Opening of Pyinnyatagonlibrary took place atPhayaggyigon village,Nyaungbingyi village-tractin Ottwin Township on 12

Library multiplier course(1/2012) opens in Dagon

Myothit (South)YANGON, 19 May—Opening of library multiplier

course (1/2012), jointly conducted by Dagon Myothit(South) Township General Administration Department andInformation and Public Relations Department, took placeat Township IPRD on 14 May.

At the ceremony, Township Administrator U MyintLwin delivered an address. After that, Staff Officer ofYangon East District IPRD Daw Mar Mar Oo explained thepurpose of opening it. A total of 78 librarians and assistantlibrarians attended the course.

Township IPRD

New library building opened in Twantay TownshipTownship Women’s AffairsOrganization Daw ZargyiWin Myint and VillageAdministrator U Kyaw Sheinformally opened the library.

Next, TownshipAdministrator U Than ZawHan and Staff Officer ofTownship IPRD U Thet Ooexplained sustainability of thelibrary meeting five-pointstandard, increase of booksand applications and purpose

of opening the library.After that, Myanmar

Libraries Foundationdonated 150 books,Chairperson of TownshipWAO K 10,000 for one radioand one tower clock to thelibrarian. The building oflibrary is 15 feet long, 20 feetwide and eight feet high, andit was built at a cost of K180,000 by local people.

Township IPRD

Pyinnyatagon library opened in Ottwin Township

Mawlamyinegyun gets school shelterthe village-tractadministrator and SwissDevelopment Cooperation(SDC) opened the school.

After that, officialsexplained the maintenancesof it. The school measuring72 ftX 32ftX 23ft wasdonated by SDC. LocalPeople in the model village

can use it as a shelter in caseof natural disaster.

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May.At the ceremony,

Assistant Director U YeNyunt of Bago RegionInformation and PublicRelations Department,

Township AdministratorU Kyaw Shwe and LibraryFoundation CommitteeChairman U Myint Kyiopened it.

Afterwards, theAssistant Director and theadministrator deliveredspeeches. Staff officer U SeinMya of Toungoo DistrictIPRD gave talks and theperpetuation of library.

It was built at a cost of K2.3 million, including thecontribution of K 1 millionby Myanmar LibraryFoundation.

Township IPRDDISTRICT

NEWS

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LABUTTA, 20 May—Opening of Township-level student-centeredapproach teaching methodcourse by No.1 BasicEducation Department,was held at No.2 BasicEducation High School in

Student-centered approach teaching methodcourse opens in Labutta

MAWLU, 20 May—Construction of village-to-village creek-crossing bridge started in Mawlu modelvillage in Indaw Township, Sagaing Region on 10 May. Itis a self-reliant wooden bridge which links Mawlu WardNo.6 and Myothit Ward No.2. The bridge is being builtwith the contribution of local people and well-wishers.

Kyemon

PONNAGYUN, 20 May—The 17th respect-payingceremony of alumni ofPonnagyun (BEHS) inRakhine State, was heldalong with get-together, atthe school on 13 May. At theceremony, old students paidrespects to 41 retiredteachers and donated cashand kinds.—Myanma Alin

Respect-payingceremony ofPonnagyun

(BEHS) alumni

YANGON, 20 May—A ceremony to open Linyaungyilibrary was held at Tawkyaung village in KyungyangonTownship, Yangon South District, on 13 May. At theceremony, Township Administrator U Kyaw Zeya Lin, StaffOfficer of Township Information and Public RelationsDepartment Daw Nan Swe Nwe Oo, Chairperson of TownshipWomen Affairs Organization Daw Zar Chi Lin, villageadministrator Man Htay Aung opened it. After that, donationof cash and publications was made through library committeemembers. It was built with the contribution of K 0.5 millionby Myanmar Library Foundation and of K 1.3 million bylocal people.

Township IPRD

International Nurses Day observedin Thanbyuzayat

THANBYUZAYAT, 20May—International NursesDay was held in Peope’sHospital in ThanbyuzayatTownship on 12 May, withan address by Head ofTownship HealthDepartment Dr Thura Aung.After that, the message sentby Chairperson of MyanmarNurse and MidwiferyAssociation Professor DrNan Htum Hla was read out.Those present holddiscussions on modern

Labutta Township,Ayeyawady Region on 10May.

At the ceremony, theTownship Administratordelivered an openingaddress and then Daw MyoSanda from Myaungmya

Education Collageexplained the student-centered approach teachingmethods. Afterwards,Township Education OfficerU Khin Maung Myit alsoexplained the course.

Myanma Alin

heath care. After that, theydonated nutritious foods to

the patients.Township IPRD

MINHLA, 20 May—Educative talks on establishing ruralhouses, growing teaks and hardwoods, environmentalconservation, land reclamation and landscaping, was heldat Shwewahmyay nursery in Minhla Township on 17 May.Assistant Director U Soe Tin (2) of Thayawady DistrictForest Department and staff gave talks. After that,landscaping and land reclamation were carried out.

DISTRICT IPRD

New deliveryward opens in

ShweguTownship

SHWEGU, 20 May—Aceremony to open newdelivery ward in rural healthcare centre was held inTeinhwon village ofShwegu Township, KachinState on 12 May.

At the ceremony, headof Township HealthDepartment Dr Thura Zawand village-tractadministrator formallyopened it.

The facility measuring20 ft X 18 ft X 18 ft wasbuilt with the contributionof K 3.5 million by localpeople.

Myanma Alin

Linyaungyi library opens inKungyangon Township

MANDALAY, 20 May—Myanma Airways changesits domestic flight fare ratesas of May 1. The flight farerates are Mandalay-Nay PyiTaw (K 35000), Mandalay-Yangon (K 60,000),Mandalay-NyaungU (K25,000), Mandalay-Monywa (K 25000),Mandalay-Khamti (K60000), Mandalay-Homalin

YESAGYO, 20 May—Opening of first aid course washeld at Basic Edcuation Middle School in Sinchaung villagein Yesagyo Township on 16 May. A total of 99 trainees areattending five-day course. The aim of opening is to promotehealth care standard along with the development of social,economic and education.—Kyemon

NAY PYI TAW, 20 May—A ceremony to donate cashfor education fund ofoffspring of MyanmaTimber Enterprise’s staff,took place at deputy generalmanager’s office of MTE inMawlamyine of Mon Stateon 17 May. Retired officersof MTE donated K 2.24 for

CSC ISSUED: Head ofMinbya TownshipImmigration and

National RegistrationDepartment U Tin Tun

Ohn hands overcitizenship scrutiny cardsto Village Administrator

U Saw Hla Aung ofChaungshay Village on

30 April.IMMIGRATION

Self-reliant wooden bridgebuilt in Mawlu model village

Educative talks on landscapesheld in Minhla

Farming faces shortage of farm workersNAY PYI TAW, 20 May—

Farming face shortage offarm workers in summerpaddy harvest season. And

farmers do not get desiredprices for paddy. Most offarm workers leave farmworks as it is tired works and

they earn a little money.They move to factories,companies and constructionworks.—Kyemon

Myanma Airways changesdomestic flight fare rates

(K 63000), Mandalay-Kalay(K 45000), Mandalay-Bhamo (K 43000),Mandalay-Magway (K30000), Mandalay-Myitkyina (K 53000),Mandalay-Putao (K 75000),Mandalay-Heho (K 25000),Mandalay-Kengtung (K75000), Mandalay-Tachilek(K 75000) and Mandalay-Lashio (K 38000).–Kyemon

Cash donated for educationfund in Mawlamyine

112 students in TaninthayiRegion, Kayin State andMon State.—MNA

DISTRICT NEWS

First aid course opens inYesagyo

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Wu Bangguo (3rd L), chairman of the StandingCommittee of China’s National People’s Congress(NPC), meets with Croatian Prime Minister ZoranMilanovic (3rd R) in Zagreb, capital of Croatia,

on 18 May, 2012.—XINHUA

No flood in Bangkok this year: authoritiesBANGKOK, 20 May—

Bangkok and key economiczones, particularly industrialestates, will not be floodedthis year, vows a Thaigovernment official, BangkokPost online reported onSaturday.

Plodprasop Suraswadi,chairman of the WaterResources Management andFlood Control Committee, saidduring the weekly “ YingluckGovernment Meets thePeople” talk show on Saturday.

In 2011, the countryfaced the worst flood crisis innearly 50 years which killedmore than 500 livesnationwide. At least fiveindustrial estates wereinundated.

Even if the amount ofnorthern runoff is as much asthat of last year, there will beno floods in the capital andnearby provinces because thegovernment is now wellprepared to prevent arecurrence of the great flood

of 2011, he said.Apart from the existing

dams, the government hadprepared areas for waterretention. As well, he said, thedredging of canals andwaterways was now 60-70percent completed and wouldbe finished soon. This wouldimprove the conditions forwater runoff to be driven outto the sea rapidly.

Moreover, floodwallshave been built aroundindustrial estates to prevent

Children with congenitalheart disease from

southwest China’s TibetAutonomous Region posefor photos after arriving atthe Beijing West RailwayStation in Beijing, capital

of China, on 20 May, 2012.A total of over 100 children

with congenital heartdisease came to Beijing onSunday from six prefecturesand cities of Tibet to receivefree surgery as beneficiaries

of a charity programme.XINHUA

key areas from being flooded,he added.

Plodprasop admitted,however, that it was notpossible for the government toprevent floods from occurringin all areas nationwide.

It was an inescapable factthat low-lying areas near theChao Phraya River in theCentral provinces could besusceptible to flooding everyyear, he said. The provincesmost at risk are Singburi, AngThong, Chainat, NakhonSawan, Suphan Buri andAyutthaya.—Xinhua

Strong quake hits North Italy, at least three deadBOLOGNA, 20 May—A

strong earthquake rocked alarge swathe of northern Italyearly on Sunday morning,causing at least three deathsand collapsing rural factoriesand ancient bell towers intowns.

The epicenter of thequake, which struck at 4:04am (0204 GMT) and had amagnitude of 5.9, was in theplains near Modena. But itwas felt in nearby regions.

One person working anight shift died in the collapseof a factory and two others

were killed in the collapse ofanother building. Rescueofficials were checkingreports that other people wereburied under rubble.

First television picturestaken after dawn showedserious damage to historicbuildings and ruralstructures. Parts of a historicfortress in one towncollapsed.

Thousands of people inthe area rushed into thestreets after the quake, felt inthe major towns of Bologna,Modena, Ferrara, Rovigo,

Verona and Mantua.A series of strong

aftershocks hit the area andlocal mayors orderedresidents to stay out of theirhomes.

The quake was centered22 miles north-northwest ofBologna at a relatively shallowdepth of 6.3 miles, the USGeological Survey said.

The last majorearthquake to hit Italy was a6.3 magnitude quake in thecentral Italian city of L’Aquilain 2009, killing nearly 300people.—Reuters

Sri Lanka womensoldiers march during a

military parade tomark the third

anniversary since theend of a 30-year war

with Tamil Tigerrebels, in Colombo,

capital of Sri Lanka, on19 May, 2012.

XINHUA

China’s railway bidding opens to local marketsBEIJING, 20 May— Bids

for railway contracts in Chinawill open to local markets soonto ensure the transparencyand fairness of the biddingprocess and prevent power-for-money deals, accordingto a document released onSunday. The document wasreleased by the Ministry ofRailways and the nationaloffice of the leading group onthe management ofoutstanding problems inconstruction projects.

It instructs that thecountry’s current railwayproject transaction centres,under the ministry and 18railways bureaus, where bidsare traded, are to be canceled.

Instead, all railway-related projects should enter“local public resourcestrading markets” inaccordance withauthorization or the location

of the projects, according tothe document, whichdescribed the move as “asignificant transformation forChina’s railway projects’bidding management.”

To echo it, bids for alllarge and medium-sizedconstruction projects underthe administration of therailways ministry went to thejurisdiction of the BeijingEngineering ConstructionTrading Centre, a local marketfor project transaction, at theend of 2011.

The document said thatthe mechanism for regulatingengineering tender should bereformed so as to ensurefairness, competitivenessand freedom from corruption.

Efforts should be madeto “prevent officials’meddling in project bidding,collusion and trading powerfor money,” it said.

Construction projectsunder the administration of18 railways bureaus will enterlocal markets in two batchesbefore the end of June, thedocument orders.

It also calls forstrengthening supervision ofrailway project bidding andpromoting electronic biddingas well as computer-facilitated, long-distance bidassessment.—Xinhua

Dutch student Gerald Van de Puppe inquires about anew housing estate during a human residential

environment exhibition in Hangzhou, east China’sZhejiang Province, on 19 May, 2012. Gerald, who

studies in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, has beenfascinated by Hangzhou’s natural and living

environment after one year of study here. He thought hewould probably find a job and stay in Hangzhou aftergraduation from Zhejiang University, so he decided to

buy a house in Hangzhou.XINHUA

Georgia woman with flesh-eatingdisease in “critical” conditionAUGUSTA, 20 May—A

Georgia woman fighting aflesh-eating bacterial infectionwas in critical condition atAugusta Hospital onSaturday, a hospital spokes-woman said. The spokes-woman said she could notcomment on whether AimeeCopeland had undergonesurgery to remove her handsand right foot, amputationsthat Copeland’s father had saidwere pending on Friday.Surgeons had amputated the24-year-old’s left leg at thehip.

“All I can say is Aimee isstill in critical condition,”hospital spokeswomanBarclay Bishop said.

Prayers and messages ofsupport have poured in forCopeland on a Facebook pagewhere her father, AndyCopeland, has chronicled herstruggle. There were noupdates on the site onSaturday. The AtlantaJournal Constitutionnewspaper said the family hadbeen overwhelmed by publicinterest and had asked forprivacy.

Cambodia’s trade with UK up48 pct in 1st quarter

Ten killed, two injured in E China road accidentWEIFANG, (Shandong), 20

May—Ten people were killedand two more were injured ina road accident happenedSaturday in east China’sShandong Province, localauthorities said early onSunday. The accident occurredat around 2:00 am on Saturdaywhen a small passenger vehiclecollided with a light truck inWeicheng District of Weifangcity. The two injured were instable conditions. Cause of theaccident is being investigated,local government sources said.

Xinhua

The destroyed vehicle is taken away from the accident siteafter it collided with a light truck in Weifang city, east

China’s Shandong Province, on 19 May, 2012.—XINHUA

PHNOM PENH, 20 May —The volume of bilateral tradebetween Cambodia and the United Kingdom for the first threemonths of 2012 is 178 million US dollars, up 48 percentcompared to the same period last year, according to a tradereport provided by the British embassy here on Sunday.

It said the main Cambodia’s products exported to the UKare garment products, footwear, sugar and honey, rice andbicycles. In return, the country imported industrial machinery,automobiles, medical and pharmaceutical products and maltfrom the UK. Pan Sorasak, secretary of state at Cambodia’sMinistry of Commerce, attributed the growth in the bilateraltrade volume to Cambodia’s political stability, good security,and favourable business environment for businesspeople.

More importantly, the two countries have had a good andlong- lasting diplomatic relation since 1953, he said.—Xinhua

Copeland suffered ahuge gash in her leg in a zip-line accident and fell into theLittle Tallapoosa River nearCarrollton, Georgia, on 1May. She developed necrotiz-ing fasciitis, a bacterialinfection that destroys softtissue. Necrotizing or “flesh-eating” soft-tissue infectionsare a broad category ofinfections with many causes,although Group A Streptoco-ccus is the most commonculprit.—Reuters

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BANGKOK, 20 May—Thai police arrested a Britishcitizen on Friday after thebodies of six babies thoughtto have been used in a blackmagic ritual were foundstuffed into travel bags in aBangkok hotel room.

Chow Hok Kuen, 28, aBritish citizen, was arrestedin Bangkok’s Chinatownand was being held for

LONDON, 20 May —A hotel in Shanghai, China has comeup with a remarkable swimming pool that is suspended 24storeys above the ground.

However if a guest suffers from fear of heights, he wouldnot want to dive into this swimming pool as it has nothingunderneath it apart from a pane of toughened glass — and ahuge drop.

Fortunately for those scared of the drop, the majority ofit is inside the building.

The unique swimming baths, in the Holiday Inn hotel,Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao, are 30 metres long, the DailyMail reported.

Hotel bosses have insisted that guests using the pool canfeel like they are swimming over the air, although many won’tdare look down.

Internet

TOKYO, 20 May—Japan says it has successfully performedthe first commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite,putting a South Korean observation satellite into orbit.

The Japanese H-2A rocket blasted off from the spacecentre on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan on Friday,the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency reported.

Around 16 minutes after launch the South KoreanKOMPSAT-3 multipurpose observation satellite developedby the Korea Aerospace Research Institute separated from therocket, JAXA said in a release.

Three Japanese satellites were also put into orbit fromthe rocket, the space agency said.

One of them, the Global Changing Observation Mission1st Water “SHIZUKU,” will monitor global ocean currents.

Japan launches multiplesatellites

H-2A rocket.

BEIJING, 20 May —A Province in northwest China willset up more than 30 radiation monitoring stations in the nextfive years.

Gansu Province will invest 30 million yuan (around $5million) in setting up such stations in 14 cities and areas withsources of radioactivity including uranium mining andmetallurgy and nuclear facilities, the China Daily reported.

Gansu already has three radiation monitoring stations inLanzhou, Jiayuguan and Jinchang cities.

Officials said the stations contributed greatly during theFukushima nuclear disaster in Japan last year, and have beenproviding accurate data on local radiation levels.

The report said Gansu has 2,900 radioactive sources andmore than 1,000 radioactive facilities.—Internet

China to build 30 radiationmonitoring stations

The H-2A launch rocket is built by Mitsubishi HeavyIndustries, Ltd.—Internet

A competitor takes part in an oriental dance contest inXinbei City, southeast China’s Taiwan, on 19 May, 2012.

Nearly 100 groups of contestants from more than 10countries and regions participated in the contest.

XINHUA

TOFINO, 20 May—Asalmon farm in BritishColumbia, Canada, is underquarantine after the discoveryof a lethal fish virus,government officials said.

The farm at Dixon Bayon the west coast ofVancouver Island is run byMainstream Canada, whichsaid the farm’s entire stock of560,000 salmon will be

LONDON, 20 May—A British citizen ofIndian origin Suma Chakrabarti waschosen out of a group of five candidates tobecome the new president of the EuropeanBank for Reconstruction andDevelopment.

63 government shareholders of thebank chose Chakrabarti as the new head.

According to the Wall Street Journal,Chakrabarti is the top civil servant at theMinistry of Justice in UK and prior to thatwas a top official at the Department forInternational Development.

Indian origin British civil servant chosen asPresident of European Bank for

Reconstruction and Development

Deadly virus hits Canada salmon farm

Freshly caught salmon.

destroyed to prevent thedisease from spreading, theCanadian Broadcasting Corpreported on Thursday.

The virus known asInfectious HematopoieticNecrosis was detected duringroutine testing on 14 May,company officials said.

IHN usually kills a fishwithin a week of exposureand can kill up to 100 percent

of an infected population.It spreads rapidly.This is code red,”

Mainstream spokeswomanLaurie Jensen said. “”This isnot good news for the fish orfor the companies.

“We will contain thishowever way we can. We willlose money, it’s in themillions. There’s a lot ofmoney at stake, but money isnot our issue right now,” shesaid.

The farmed fish werelikely infected by wildsalmon, which carry IHN buthave developed resistance tothe virus. “So the likelihoodthat this has any impact onwild salmon is very, verylow,” Gary Marty, fishpathologist for the BritishColumbia Ministry ofAgriculture said.

Internet

Thai police arrest man withbabies’ bodies for black magic

MOSCOW, 20 May—In aneffort to quell public angerover the misuse of flashinglights on the country’s roads,Russian President VladimirPutin on Saturday slashed byalmost half the number ofgovernment officials allowedto use car sirens.

According to a decreeposted on the Kremlinwebsite, the number ofvehicles with the “migalki” -as the lights are known - willbe reduced to 569 from over1,000 by 1 June.

There has been risingpublic anger over the lights,which businessmen and stateofficials use to bypass trafficrules.

Motorist group BlueBuckets has staged a numberof protests against them, andalso runs a database ofoffending vehicles. Thedecision to cut the number ofVIP vehicles will “increaseroad safety” and put a halt tothe “inappropriate use” of thesirens, the Kremlin said.

The sirens have beeninvolved in a series of high-profile accidents in recentyears. Two women werekilled in Moscow in 2010,when their car collided head-on with that of a seniorexecutive of Russian oil giantLUKoil.

Internet

Putin cracksdown on carsirens usedby officials

24th-storey swimming pool hasnothing but glass underneath

Photo taken on 18 May, 2012 shows the newly-built Tianjin Municipal CulturalCentre, a multi-purpose cultural activity complex, in north China’s Tianjin

Municipality. The complex, which mainly consists of a museum, an art gallery, alibrary venue and a theater, will be open to the public starting from Saturday for

a trial run. —XINHUA

possession of humanremains, police said.

Authorities believe hewas trying to smuggle thecorpses to Taipei.

“The bodies are ofchildren between the ages oftwo and seven months. Somewere found covered in goldleaf,” Wiwat Kumchumnan,sub-division chief of thepolice’s Children andWomen Protection unit, toldReuters. It was not clearwhere the bodies came from.

Kuen was staying at ahotel in Khao San Road,Bangkok’s backpacker area,but the bodies were found ina separate hotel.

Police had received atip-off that infant corpseswere being offered to wealthyclients through a websiteadvertising black magicservices.

The corpses werebought from a Taiwanesenational for 200,000 bahtand could have been sold forsix times that amount inTaipei, police said.

Reuters

The outcome marked a rare setbackfor the French and German governmentsas they had backed Philippe de FontaineVive Curtaz, a French citizen who works atthe European Investment Bank.

The EBRD was established in 1991 tohelp countries emerging from Communismmake the transition from centrally plannedto market economies.

Although most of its shareholders areEuropean governments, its largest singleshareholder is the US government.

Internet

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LONDON, 20 May—USsinger Bobby Brown’s newalbum includes “Don’t LetMe Die,” a song he wrote andrecorded for his late ex-wifeWhitney Houston.

Houston accidentallydrowned in a hotel bathtubon 11 Feb after using cocaine.She was 48.

Houston and Brownwere married from 1992 to2007. During their famouslyvolatile relationship, bothHouston and Brown battledaddictions to drugs.

MOSCOW, 20 May—Married film star Will Smithslapped a Ukrainian reporterwho kissed him multipletimes at the Moscowpremiere of “Men in Black3,” video footage shows.

The unidentifiedjournalist met Smith on thered carpet at the event, kissedhim on the cheeks, thenattempted to smooch theactor on the lips before Smithpushed him away and hit

LOS ANGELES, 20 May—Van Halen’s publicist saysthe American rock group hascanceled more than 30concert dates this summer.

No reason was given forthe move, which wasconfirmed on Thursday, CNNsaid. Thirteen shows,including Saturday’s concertin St. Paul, Minn, through a 26June gig in New Orleans will

LONDON, 20 May—Singer-actress DanniiMinogue isn’t returning as ajudge to the British version of“The X Factor,” the talentshow’s producers said.

Recording artist KellyRowland replaced Minoguelast season because the “XFactor” tapings conflictedwith those for “Australia’s GotTalent” for which Minogue isalso a judge.

The BBC reportedRowland recently announcedshe won’t return as a judgenext season, sparking rumorsMinogue would reclaim herplace on the show.

Internet

CANNES, 20 May—Actorand martial-arts icon JackieChan announced at theCannes International FilmFestival in France he is retiringfrom action movies at the ageof 58.

“This is my last actionfilm,” The Daily Telegraphquoted Chan as saying abouthis 100th movie, “Chinese

LONDON, 20 May—Actress Kristen Stewart wantsto take on an evil role.

The actress says shewould love to play the role ofpsychotic Cathy Ames from“East of Eden”.

“She’s a psychopathic,evil ****! I haven’t done thatyet,” femalefirst.co.ukquoted her as saying.

Bobby Brown records tribute song forHouston

Will Smith slaps affectionate reporter

Van Halen scraps summerconcert dates

Authorities in Maryland said a man allegedly pulled a fire alarm because he wasangry at the closed captioning at a showing of “The Avengers.”

Fire marshals and Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies said they were called toRegal Cinemas in Abingdon on Monday on night after the fire alarm was pulled at 6:45pm, The Baltimore Sun reported on Tuesday.

“(Subject) became disruptive and argued with the theater manager after discovering‘The Avengers’ movie he was watching was a ‘closed caption’ film,” the State FireMarshal’s Office said in a report. “Management offered a refund or future tickets, whichhe refused and returned to the theater.”

“Once the movie ended, (Subject) became belligerent and argumentative withmanagement once again and at that point (Subject) intentionally pulled the fire alarmin the lobby and left the premises,” the report said.

The fire marshal’s office said the 34-year-old man, whose name was not released, willbe served with a criminal summons requiring a court appearance.

Ukraine has recruitedSoothsayer Hog, a pig withsupposed psychic powers, topredict the outcome ofsoccer matches at the Euro2012 Games in Kiev.

Svetlana Bovkun, aspokeswoman for theUkrainian government, toldRussian news agency RIANovosti the Hog will have hisown housing in the fan areaand will be put to making one

Police in an Italian city said they were able to round upa pair of wild boars and take them back to the nearbycountryside.

Florence police said the boars were spotted runningbetween parked cars in a residential neighbourhood, ANSAreported.

Police said officers were able to surround the animalsand drive them back to the nearby countryside. Officials saidthey believe the boars were looking for food.

A man who had to be cutfrom a garbage chute in theRussian city of Tyumen toldemergency workers he washiding from his girlfriend.

The 32-year-old mansaid he was on the eighthfloor of his building whenhe decided to disappear, RIANovosti reported. He wentinto free fall before gettingwedged in at the fifth-floorlevel of the garbage chute.

“An eyewitnessreported to the regionalrescue service that there wasa man in the chute,” saidElena Tretiyachenko, aspokeswoman forEmergency ResponseServices.

Tyumen is in westernSiberia.

Jackie Chan retiring fromaction flicks

Actor and martial-artsicon Jackie Chan

Whitney Houston withBobby Brown at

Disneyland in Anaheim,California on 7 August,2004. Houston filed for

divorce from Brown on 13Sept, 2006.—INTERNET

coming home. Meanwhile, I’mtrying to find the strength tomove on, searching thestreets, tryin’ to find you aclone,” Brown sings on“Don’t Let Me Die.” TheGuardian newspaper said thetribute to Houston will appearon “The Masterpiece,” whichis his first solo album in 14years and due out next month.

“I didn’t realize thatevery breath I took was fromyou. You were my air,” hesings. “Don’t let me die, girl.”

Internet

Stewart wants evil role

Actress Kristen Stewart

Stewart also has aburning desire to star in a filmversion of William Styron’s1951 book “Lie Down inDarkness”.

She admits that playingPeyton Loftis, a suicidal girlwho lives with herdysfunctional family inVirginia, would be ideal.

“I want to play Peytonmore than anything I canpossibly taste or touch in mylife. I want to play her sobad,” she said.—Internet

“Been about a monthsince you been gone. I guessit’s pretty clear that you ain’t

Will Smith

him lightly across the face.“What the hell’s yourproblem, man?” Smith said,adding to people nearby,“He’s lucky I didn’t suckerpunch him.” Smithcontinued to greet fans andanswer questions from othermembers of the media, TMZsaid. The father of threechildren is married to actressJada Pinkett Smith.

Internet

Dannii Minoguenot returning to

British ‘XFactor’

Eddie Van Halen (R) andDavid Lee Roth with VanHalen perform in concert

at the BankAtlantic Centrein Sunrise, Florida on 10April, 2012.—INTERNET

go on as scheduled, the reportsaid. The band is on tour tosupport “A Different Kind ofTruth,” its first completealbum recorded with originallead singer David Lee Rothsince “1984” was released in1983.

News of the cancellationhas sparked concern from fansregarding the health ofguitarist and foundingmember of the band, EddieVan Halen, who has battledcancer and drug addiction inthe past, CNN said.

InternetZodiac,” which is screeningat the festival. “I tell you, I’mnot young any more. I’mreally, really tired,” he said.“And the world is too violentright now. It’s a dilemma — Ilike action but I don’t likeviolence.” The Telegraph saidChan also talked about hisplans to concentrate on moreserious roles in the future.“For the last 10 years, I havebeen making some other

different movies. I want to bean Asian Robert De Niro. Idon’t just want to be an actionstar. I want to be a true actor. Iwant to get rid of my image,”the Hong Kong-born Chansaid.—Internet

Australian singer DanniiMinogue attends the “ElleStyle Awards” at the Grand

Connaught Rooms in Londonon 22 Feb, 2010.—INTERNET

Fire alarm pulled during ‘The Avengers’

A woman walks around the back of a house, whichwas built upside down by Polish architects IrekGlowacki and Marek Rozhanski, in the westernAustrian village of Terfens on 5 May, 2012. The

project is meant to serve as a new tourist attractionin the area, and is now open for public viewing.

INTERNET

‘Soothsayer Hog’ to predict soccermatches

Police remove boars fromItalian city

prediction a day.“He’s really been

looking forward to thetournament,” Bovkun said.“He watches all footballmatches with his owner. He’svery kind and very friendly.”

Ukraine hopesSoothsayer Hog will be aworthy successor to Paul theOctopus. Paul, who died inOctober 2010, predicted theresults of every German

match in that year’s WorldCup and also correctlycalled Spain’s 1-0 victoryover the Netherlands in thefinal.

Every day, the Hog willbe presented with two platesof food, each bearing theflag of a contendingcountry.

Man hidingfrom

girlfriendgets stuck in

garbagechute

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Solskjaersnubs Villa tostay at Molde

LONDON, 20 May—Former Manchester Unitedstriker Ole Gunnar Solskjaerhas snubbed Aston Villa tostay with Molde, theNorwegian club with whichhe still has two years to run onhis contract.

The 39-year-old had talkswith Villa on Friday, theEnglish Premier League clubmanagerless after AlexMcLeish was fired.

“I have not had anyoffers,” Solskjaer told a Pressconference on Saturday. “I’mnot looking for another job.”

Former ManchesterUnited striker Ole Gunnar

Solskjaer, pictured in2011, has snubbed AstonVilla to stay with Molde,the Norwegian club with

which he still has two yearsto run on his contract.

INTERNET

Keane gets all-clear after fitness scare

times in Ireland’s qualification campaign, iskey to this country’s hopes of advancingfrom a tough Euro 2012 group that includesSpain, Italy and Croatia.—Internet

Republic of Ireland captain RobbieKeane, pictured in March 2012, is on

course to feature at Euro 2012 after scansrevealed his hamstring injury is only

minor.—INTERNET

DUBLIN, 20 May—Republic of Irelandcaptain Robbie Keane is on course to featureat Euro 2012 after scans revealed his hamstringinjury is only minor.

A recent report in Ireland claimed the 31-year-old striker might not be able to train withGiovanni Trapattoni’s squad in Malahide thisweek after suffering a hamstring problem.

But a scan has revealed there is no tearand it is hoped LA Galaxy star Keane, who ishis country’s record scorer with 53 goals, willjoin his team-mates before the squad headsoff for a training camp in Italy next weekend.

A Football Association of Irelandspokesman said: “Robbie Keane’s scan resultcame through today and showed all clear withno sign of any tear or blood.

“He will be assessed when he comes inand should be fine.” Former Tottenham andLiverpool forward Keane, who scored seven

International Sports

Euro 2012 title or nothingfor Podolski

BERLIN, 20 May—Arsenal-bound striker LukasPodolski has said Germanymust aim to win Euro 2012“and nothing else” when theybid to be crowned championsof Europe for the fourth timenext month.

Germany open their Euro2012 campaign in Group Bagainst Portugal in Lviv,Ukraine, on 9 June, butPodolski says the aim ofJoachim Loew’s squad has tobe winning the final at Kiev’sOlympic Stadium on 1 July.

Poland-born Podolskiwas very clear when askedabout Germany’s goals for atournament they last won inEngland in 1996. “The title.Nothing else,” he toldCologne newspaper Koelner-Stadt-Anzeiger at Germany’straining camp in Sardinia,Italy.

“In the last few years ithas always been said that

Cologne striker LukasPodolski, who is leaving

for Arsenal, has saidGermany must aim to winEuro 2012 “and nothingelse” when they bid to becrowned champions of

Europe for the fourth timenext month.—INTERNET

Djokovic, Nadal in Rome Masters final rematch

“In football, and in lifein general, things turn up thatyou have to make decisionsabout. I have a contract fortwo more years and I’ll standby that.”

Solskjaer returned toNorway late Friday to learnthat Molde’s billionaire backerKjell Inge Rokke had pulledthe plug on his company’s20-year support, whichincluded building the club anew stadium in the late 1990s,as a result of the Villa talks.

Internet

when we manage to reach thesemi-finals, that is alreadysome success. “I think beforethe tournament starts we cansay we are ready to play forthe title. “That brings a certainthrust, a force, if you say fromthe outset: we want to win thetitle.”

With 95 caps forGermany and 43 goals, the 26-year-old has already been partof German teams whichfinished third at the 2006 and2010 World Cups and reachedthe final of Euro 2008.

Podolski will play for theGunners next season in thePremier League after threeseasons at Cologne, who wererelegated from the Bundesligaat the start of May.

Germany also face WorldCup runners-up theNetherlands and Denmark inGroup B.

Internet

Spain’s Rafael Nadalserves to his compatriot

David Ferrer during theirsemi-finals match of theATP Rome tournament.

Nadal dominated Ferrer 7-6 (8/6), 6-0 to power into a

seventh Rome Mastersfinal, beating his fellowSpaniard for the 12th

consecutive time on clay.INTERNET

pleased to be back in the final.”After defeating Ferrer for the12th consecutive time on clay,Nadal will face Djokovic forthe 32nd time on Sunday, withthe Spaniard going into thecontest holding a 17-14 lead.Nadal won their last meetingin April for the Monte Carlotitle, snapping a run of sevenconsecutive losses to his rivalin finals dating back to March2011. “I’ve raised the level ofour rivalry,” said Djokovic.“Playing Rafa in the finalsagain is very encouraging. It iswhat I want before RolandGarros.”—Internet

ROME, 20 May—Worldnumber one and defendingchampion Novak Djokovicswept past Roger Federer onSaturday to set up a RomeMasters final rematch with five-time winner Rafael Nadal. Topseed Djokovic ended Federer’sbrilliant run of recent clayform, defeating the worldnumber two, and last week’sMadrid champion, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) while Nadal reached aseventh Rome final with a 7-6(8/6), 6-0 win over compatriotDavid Ferrer.

Federer saved a matchpoint for 5-5 in the second set

as he broke Djokovic on astinging forehand winner. Buthe could not extend thatbattling instinct into thetiebreaker, with Djokovictaking victory on his secondwinning chance as the Swissput a backhand long after anhour and 39 minutes on court.

“This was my best matchon clay so far,” said Djokovic.“I was focused from thebeginning and very determin-ed and concentrated. “I washitting the ball well andreturning extremely well. I wasmaking him play the extra shotand make errors. I’m very

Ghana qualifies for FIFA U-20 Women’sWorld Cup

made their debut in theGermany 2010 U-20 Women’sWorld Cup finals.

The qualification comesbarely after their under-17counterpart; the BlackMaidens booked their placein FIFA tournament afterthumping South Africa 5-1 onaggregate in the final roundof qualifiers at the start of lastmonth.—Internet

ACCRA, 20 May—Ghana’s female nationalunder-20 soccer team, theBlack Princesses, booked aplace in the FIFA world cupfinals after drubbing Tunisia4-1 in the second-leg of thequalifier at the Accra Sports

Stadium on Saturday.The Black Princesses

won on 7-2 aggregate for thebiennial tournament to bestaged in Japan later inAugust following a 3-1thrashing of the NorthAfrican side in the first-leg

held in Tunisia two weeksago.

Ghana thus becomes oneof Africa’s two representa-tives for the World Cup whichwill be their second straightappearance.

The Black Princesses

Serbia’s Novak Djokovicreturns a ball to Swiss

Roger Federer during theirsemi-finals match of theATP Rome tournament.

Djokovic ended Federer’sbrilliant run of recent clayform, defeating the world

number two, and lastweek’s Madrid champion,

6-2, 7-6 (7/4).INTERNET

GLADSTONE, 20 May—Reigning US Women’s Openchampion So Yeon Ryu ofSouth Korea was ousted 2-up by American Vicky Hurston Saturday in a quarter-finalat the LPGA Sybase Match-

Asian stars ousted in LPGA Match Play

So Yeon Ryu of SouthKorea hits her tee shot on

the tenth hole in thequarter final round of the

Sybase Match PlayChampionship at

Hamilton Farm Golf Clubin Gladstone, NewJersey.—Internet

Play Championship.World No 13 Ryu, an

LPGA rookie seeking her firsttriumph since her majorvictory last year, lost after athird round that saw WorldNo 1 Yani Tseng of Taipeiand World No 2 Na YeonChoi of South Koreaeliminated.

“We both played prettysolid the whole day,” Hurstsaid. “She kind of let it go atthe end, but it was prettyclose.”

Sunday’s semi-finals forthe $1.5 million event send37th-ranked Hurst againstTaipei’s Candie Kung andAmerican Morgan Presselfacing Spain’s AzaharaMunoz. Winners playSunday afternoon for the titleat Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

Kung, the lowest-ranked of the last four at 49th,ousted Tseng 3 and 2 to reachthe last eight then outlasted

Paraguay’s 41st-rankedJulieta Granada 2 and 1 tostay in contention for herfirst title since 2008.

Pressel, seeking her firstLPGA triumph in more thanfour years, took outSweden’s Anna Nordqvist 5and 4 to book a semi-finaldate with Munoz, whoeliminated American StacyLewis by the same score.

“This afternoon I had alittle bit of a break and didn’tneed to make quite as manybirdies, but tomorrow I’mgoing to need to make thebirdies again because I’msure ‘Atha’ is going to comeout strong.”

Pressel, who turns 24 onWednesday, has not won anLPGA title since the 2008Kapalua Classic. She won the2007 Kraft Nabisco crown tobecome the youngest majorwinner in LPGA history.

Internet

‘Injured’ Rooney fit forEuros-Hodgson

England striker WayneRooney.

LONDON, 20 May—England striker WayneRooney is recovering from aminor injury but will be fullyfit for his expected returnduring the group stages atEuro 2012, manager RoyHodgson has revealed.

Rooney is suspendedfor England’s opening GroupD games against France and

Sweden but is likely to comeback into Hodgson’s startingline-up for the final first roundmatch against Ukraine.

Hodsgon revealed thatthe 26-year-old ManchesterUnited star — who wasphotographed holidaying inLas Vegas on Saturday —would be excused from nextweek’s friendly againstNorway in Oslo. He will thenlink up with England on May 29in time for England’s final warm-up game against Belgium atWembley on June 2.

“Wayne has beenplaying with a minor injuryfor the last three or fourgames which needed acouple of weeks to clear up,”said Hodgson.

“He won’t be involved inthe Norway game and I don’tknow whether I will select himfor Belgium at this stage.

Internet

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(21-5-12 09:30 am ~22-5-12 09:30 am) MST

MYANMARINTERNATIONAL

MYANMAR TV

(21-5-2012) (Monday)

Focus Myanmar TV Programme

7:00 am 1. Paritta By Hilly

Region MissionarySayadaw

7:25 am 2. To Be Healthy Exercise7:50 am 3. Health Programme8:05 am 4. Cute Little Dancer8:30 am 5. Song of National Races8:45 am 6. Musical Programme4:10 pm 7. Dance Variety4:30 pm 8. University of Distance

Education (TV Lectures)- Third Year (English)

4:45 pm 9. Songs For Upholding

National Spirit4:55 pm10. Musical Programme

(The Radio MyanmarModern Music Troupe)

5:05 pm11. Myanmar Langue7:00 pm12. TV Drama Series8:00 pm13. News14. World’s Stars15. TV Drama Series16. India Drama Series

Weather Map of Myanmar and Neighbouring Areas Weather forecast for 21th May, 2012

ALBUQUERQUE, 20May—The western UnitedStates and eastern Asia willbe treated this weekend to arare solar spectacle when themoon slides across the sun,creating a “ring of fire.”

But scientists cautionwould-be viewers to be verycareful because the sun’sdamaging rays will remainpowerful even during theannular solar eclipse. The

Viewing events, eyewear urgedfor ‘Ring of Fire’

In this 15 Jan, 2010 file photo showing a combination ofthree separate photographs, the various stages of an

annular solar eclipse seen over Anuradhapura,Sri Lanka.—INTERNET

advice: Either wear speciallydesigned protective eyewearor attend a viewing event —at a planetarium or amateurastronomy club, for example— to avoid risk of serious eyeinjury. The solar spectaclewill first be seen in easternAsia around dawn Monday,local time. Weatherpermitting, millions of earlyrisers in southern China,northern Taipei andsoutheast Japan will be ableto catch the ring eclipse.

Then, the late day sun (onSunday in the US) will transforminto a glowing ring in southwest

Oregon, Northern California,central Nevada, southern Utah,northern Arizona and NewMexico and finally the TexasPanhandle. For 3 ½ hours, theeclipse follows an 8,500-milepath with the ring-of-firephenomenon lasting as longas 5 minutes, depending onlocation.

Outside this narrowband, other parts of the USand portions of Canada and

Mexico will be treated to apartial eclipse. The EasternSeaboard will be shut out,but people can find onlinesites that plan to broadcastthe event live.

It’s impossible to knowhow many people plan tomake an event of the ring-of-fire spectacle, the likes ofwhich hasn’t been seen inthe continental US for nearlytwo decades.—Internet

Australian authorities race to drifting shipSYDNEY, 20 May—

Australian authorities wereracing to secure a cargo shipdrifting off the Great BarrierReef, with one expert saying itwas “sheer luck” it had not hita reef near the World Heritage-listed site.

The Hong Kong-flaggedbulk carrier ID Integrity brokedown north of the Queenslandcity of Cairns late Friday,sparking alarms that it wouldsmash into the coral dive siteShark Reef.

Simon Meyjes, whoheads the century-old marinegroup Australian Reef Pilots,said it appeared anenvironmental disaster hadbeen averted by the crewdumping some of the

Integrity’s sea water ballastso it passed over Shark Reef.

“I don’t know what theactual under keel clearancewould have been as it wentover the reef,” he said. “Butcertainly it would have been avery, very uncomfortablesituation. They were at themercy of the weathercompletely. “I think that theyhave been very, very lucky.”

Meyjes said had theTownsville-bound Integritydrifted slightly further to thenorth, it could have hit OspreyReef, an exposed coraloutcrop.

“So it’s just sheer luck,”he said. “We’re all breathinga huge sight of relief I canassure you.”

The ship, which sufferedan engine breakdown en routefrom Shanghai, was reachedby a commercial tug, PT Kotor,on Sunday as it drifted in openwater in the Coral Sea towardsthe Outer Reef, on the edge ofthe main reef body.

The Australian MaritimeSafety Authority (AMSA)said the tug had connected atowline to the Integrity andthey were travelling slowlyaway from the Outer Reef andawaiting the arrival of thelarger tugs.

The AustralianGovernment’s emergencytowage vessel PacificResponder was scheduled tobe on scene at about 0500GMT.—Internet

This photo taken on 20 May and released by theAustralian Maritime Safety Authority, shows the HongKong-flagged bulk carrier ID Integrity drifting off the

Great Barrier Reef near the coast of Australia.—INTERNET

Season’s first Atlantic tropical storm forms offSouth Carolina

MIAMI, 20 May—Tropical Storm Albertoformed off the South Carolinacoast on Saturday, bringingan early start to the Atlantichurricane season, forecastersat the US National HurricaneCentre said.

Although the storm waslikely to remain offshore,forecasters issued a tropicalstorm warning for the SouthCarolina coast late onSaturday, saying there was“too little margin for error”

not to issue the warning.Alberto was in the

Atlantic about 110 milessoutheast of Charleston withmaximum sustained winds of50 miles per hour, with highergusts, the hurricane centresaid. “Little change in strengthis forecast during the next 48hours,” the forecast added.

It was moving slowlysouthwest and forecasterssaid dangerous surfconditions were possiblealong the coasts of Georgia

and South Carolina throughMonday.

Alberto was forecast tomake a slow loop during thenext few days and then turnnortheast, making its wayalong the US mid-Atlanticseaboard before dissipatingin about five days.

That would keep it wellaway from the Gulf of Mexico,where US oil and gas operationsare clustered, but could bringsqualls and rough surf to theCarolina coast.—Reuters

Climberdies in

1,100-footfall on

Alaska’sMount

McKinley

ANCHORAGE, 20 May—A climber on Alaska’s Mount McKinley died in a 1,100-foot fallthat started with an effort to retrieve a sliding backpack during an attempt to ascend NorthAmerica’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said on Saturday.

The Friday afternoon fall was the first serious accident in this year’s climbing season, theservice said. The climber — who was not from the United States — was in a three-person partythat was not roped together. At the time of the accident, the group was heading up from the16,200-foot level of the 20,320-foot mountain, officials said.

The trio had just finished ascending a steep section when the climber tried to recover abackpack that had slipped downhill, according to the account given by one of the victim’sexpedition partners, said Maureen McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Denali National Park.

The fall was likely not a typical slide down a steep slope, McLaughlin said. “It was probablymore of a situation of stumbling, going after the pack,” she said. The climber’s body wasrecovered by park rangers and flown off the mountain, park officials said. The climber’s identitywas being withheld pending notification of family members.—Reuters

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Celebration of aMyanmar MusicLegend

* News* Music Programme* A Pretty Custom of

Kandayawady AsiaVut A @ Rice poundingcompetition

* News* Diverse National

Costumes & TheirFashion Trend(Episode-2)

* News* Kyaing Tong: Town in

the beautiful Valley* News* IT Technology to

Fulfill The Demand ofERA

* News* A Merry Bo Tree

Water Festival: ShweKyet Yat Village

* News* Youth & Career* News* Halin, A Treasure

Trove of the AncientPyu City

* Myanmar Movie"Invisible Bond"

Sr. No. Regions/States

Temperature (°C/°F) For Tomorrow

Maximum Minimum Forecast Percent

1 Kachin 39/102 25/77 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

2 Kayah 31/88 20/68 Scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

3 Kayin 32/90 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

4 Chin 27/81 15/59 Scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

5 Upper Sagaing 39/102 25/77 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

6 Lower Sagaing 41/106 26/79 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

7 Taninthayi 31/88 22/72 Widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

8 Bago 34/93 23/73 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

9 Magway 38/100 28/82 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

10 Mandalay 40/104 29/84 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

11 Mon 32/90 23/73 Widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

12 Yangon 34/93 23/73 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

13 Rakhine 33/91 25/77 Fairly widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

14 Southern Shan 27/81 18/64 Scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

15 Northern Shan 36/97 18/64 Scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

16 Eastern Shan 31/88 22/72 Scattered rain or thundershowers (80%)

17 Ayeyawady 31/88 24/75 Widespread rain or thundershowers (80%)

18 Neighbouring Nay Pyi Taw 36/97 23/73 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

19 Neighbouring Yangon 34/93 23/73 Isolated rain or thundershowers (80%)

20 Neighbouring Mandalay 40/104 29/84 Likelihood of isolated rain or thundershowers (60%)

Summary of

observations at 09:30

hr MST on today

During the past (24) hours, weather have been partly cloudy in Mandalay and Magway Regions, Kachin State, rain or thundershowers have been isolated in Sagaing Region, scattered in Ayeyawady Region, Shan and Chin States, fairly widespread in Bago and Yangon Regions, Rakhine and Kayah States and widespread in the remaining Regions and States with regionally heavyfalls in Mon State. Day temperatures were (5°C) above to (6°C) May average temperatures in Upper Sagaing Region, Kachin and Chin States, (3°C) to (4°C) above May average temperatures in Lower Sagaing Region, Northern Shan States and about May average temperatures in the remaining Regions and States. The significant day temperatures were Kalewa and Gangaw (43°C) each, Mawlaik, Kalay and Myingyan (42°C). The noteworthy amounts of rainfall recorded were Bilin (4.84) inches, Paung (4.72) inches, Chaungzon (2.95) inches, Shwegyin (2.64) inches and Myaungmya (2.52) inches.

Bay Inference Monsoon is strong in the Andaman Sea and Southeast Bay. Weather is partly cloudy to cloudy elsewhere in

the Bay of Bengal.

State of the Sea Squalls with moderate to rough sea are likely at times off and along Myanmar Coasts. Surface wind speed

in squalls may reach (30) to (35) mph.

Outlook for sub-

sequent two days Likelihood of advance of Southwest monsoon into the Deltaic areas.

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YANGON, 20 May—Chairman of Myanmar NationalSports Committee Union Minister for Sports U Tint Hsan metPresident U Htet Nyi of Myanmar Shooting Federation andpersonnel at the shooting range of the federation in DagonMyothit (North) here this morning.

The Union Minister called on them to make preparationsto successfully host the XXVII SEA Games and then inspectedthe conditions of shooting ranges, mess and hostels. Heencouraged shooters in training and presented them withsport jerseys. He then greeted trainees from the federationwho have completed International Shooting Federation-recognized B license course.

The Union Minister then visited Myanmar Martial ArtsTraining School and Myanmar Equestrian Federation inDagon Myothit (North) and called for intensive training.

He then met Karatedo, billiard and snooker players intraining at respective sports federations in Aung San Stadiumand spoke words of encouragement to athletes from Myanmar

Union Sports Ministerencourages athletes in

training

Disabled Sports Federation. He also met Taekwondo andvolleyball players, weightlifters and managers and coaches.

The Union Minister also visited Myanmar CricketFederation, Myanmar Caneball Federation, MyanmarSwimming Federation, Myanmar Judo Federation andMyanmar Tennis Federation to view the trainings andencourage sportsmen. –MNA

YANGON, 20 May—The 33rd Asia Pacific JuniorGolf Championship 2012, hosted by Myanmar andorganized by Myanmar Golf Federation, continued for thefourth and final day at Pun Hlaing Golf Club in HlinethayaTownship on 18 May afternoon.

After the fourth round, General Secretary of MGFU Aung Hla Han presented gift to Chief Operation OfficerU Lay Myaing of Pun Hlaing Golf Club and leaders of HongKong, Indian, Malaysian, Philippine and Thai golf teams.

Joint Secretary of MGF U Myo Tun and ChiefOperation Officer U Lay Myaing awarded winners in thewomen’s group A, B, C and D events and men’s A, B, C andD events.

Vice-President of MGF U Min Thein presentedoverall championship shield to Danthai Boonma (Thailand)in boy class A&B event with 272 strokes and KanphanitnanMuang Khumsakul (Thailand) in girls’ group event with214, Thai team stood first in women’s team event with 419.Indian team secured first place in men’s team event.

Executive of MGF U Chan Han, Captain ofMyanmar Team, spoke words of thanks.—MNA

33rd Asia Pacific Junior GolfChampionship concludes

Vice-President of Myanmar Golf FederationU Min Thein presents overall championship

trophy to Danthai Boonma (Thailand) inBoy's Group A & B event.—MGF

Chairman of Myanmar National Sports Committee Union Minister for Sports U Tint Hsan givesencouragement to athletes in training.—MNA

Chelsea storm final frontierto win Champions League

began 57 years ago andguaranteed to playChampions Leaguefootball again next season.The match itself was similarto Chelsea’s astonishingsemi-final victory overBarcelona with bothsuccesses built on solidsteel rearguard actionsagainst sides thatdominated themterritorially and withpossession of the ball.

The Barcelona victoryfollowed Chelsea’s winover Napoli in the Roundof 16 when they lost thefirst leg 3-1 in Italy andcame back to win 4-1 in thesecond leg, a result thatultimately set them on theroad to their success inGermany.—Internet

Chelsea’s forward DidierDrogba celebrates afterscoring a goal during

their UEFA ChampionsLeague final football

against Bayern Munichat Fussball Arena

stadium in Munich.INTERNET

Chelsea’s playerscelebrate with the trophy

after their ChampionsLeague final soccer

match against BayernMunich at the Allianz

Arena in Munich on 19May, 2012.—INTERNET

MUNICH, 20 May—Chelsea cleared the finalhurdle in a season of never-ending challenges whenthey beat Bayern Munich4-3 on penalties in theGerman team’s AllianzArena stadium to becrowned EuropeanChampions for the first timeon Saturday. In what may bethe final act of his Chelseacareer, Didier Drogba sealedvictory in a tension-packedChampions League finalwith the last kick of theshootout to clinch victory

was saved by Petr Cech afterDrogba fouled Franck Riberyto concede the spot kick.

Bayern skipper PhilippLahm even won the toss todecide which end theshootout would take placeand it was held in front of theBayern fans.

Chelsea’s success, builton the millions invested inthe club over the last nineyears by Russian billionaireRoman Abramovich, cameon another night of unlikelyglory in a season that seemedto be going nowhere undercoach Andre Villas-Boaswho was sacked in March.

Chelsea wererejuvenated by interim coachRoberto Di Matteo who notonly steered them to thissuccess but also won the FACup two weeks ago. Whetherhe gets the job permanentlyremains to be seen, but thereis little more he could havedone to prove he is the manfor the job.

He ended the campaignnot only with the two cups,but also making Chelsea thefirst London club to win thetrophy since the competition

after he had headed Chelsea’sequaliser two minutes fromtime to force a 1-1 draw andsend the game to extra time.

Bayern, just as in 1999 whenthey lost 2-1 to ManchesterUnited who scored two goalsin stoppage time, were withintouching distance of the cupthanks to an 83rd-minuteheader from Thomas Mueller.But history came back tohaunt them as Drogbasnatched victory from theirgrasp with a late equaliser toset up his team to victoryagainst all the odds.

Even in extra timeBayern had a goldenopportunity to seal the winbut Arjen Robben’s penalty

‘Injured’ Rooneyfit for Euros-

Hodgson

Royal Caribbean to pull back fromEurope

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Asian starsousted in LPGA

Match Play

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Union Transport Minister visitsBotahtaung Jetty, Pansodan-Dalla

ferry ticket counter, IWT Delta Division

Britain, Russia grab places inwomen’s boxing

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